The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia's article on the Montes Pietatis, the charitable pawnshops founded to lend to the poor without ruinous interest, dating the first lasting one to Perugia in 1462 and its formal papal approval to the Fifth Lateran Council's Bull Inter Multiplices, 4 May 1515, under Pope Leo X, which the article quotes declaring a Monte's modest, cost-covering charge "in no way illicit or sinful, but on the contrary meritorious."
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Over a century old and not modern peer review, but it quotes the 1515 bull's own operative language directly rather than paraphrasing it, and its 1462 and 1515 dates agree with independent corroboration: multiple sources on the Perugia foundation and the Inter Multiplices bull agree on both years. NotesCited for the 1462 Perugia Monte di Pieta founding and the 1515 Bull Inter Multiplices, the fifteenth century relaxation and its sixteenth century formal approval named in the design document's own seeding priority.
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PublisherRobert Appleton Company (New Advent)
Publication Year1913
URLhttps://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10534d.htm
Source Typeencyclopedia
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