A recent court case brought by the Editor of the Libro d'Oro della Nobilta Italiana against the newly republished Annuario della Nobilta Italiana (of which the first edition of the new series was produced in 2000, and a second edition is under way), has ended in disaster for the plaintiff.
Not only was their case rejected, but evidence has been produced which demonstrated that the name Libro d?Oro in fact belonged to the Italian State, as this was the title of original register of the nobility of the old Kingdom and which is maintained in the official state archives. In the 1930s the Italian government ordered that the editor stop using the name, but at the time it was allegedly claimed that the name had separately and earlier been approved by a Cardinal, in the name of the Holy See.
It now appears that this was not in fact the case, and it is alleged that the Cardinal never existed and the claim to this recognition was forged. The editors were told to cease distributing the book and, to make it worse, the Holy See has now also stepped in and allegedly demanded Euros 1 million in compensation. A question remain whether the publication actually belongs to the editors, or to the common society of the Collegio Araldico which is the official publisher.
The final outcome is not yet known but it would seem that this leaves the field free for the Annuario della Nobilta Italiana.
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Guy Stair Sainty
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