Original publication: Blastenbrei, Peter. “An Unusual Privilege of Early Modern Roman Confraternities.” Confraternitas 15 (2): 2010. 3-9. DOI: 10.33137/confrat.v15i2.12568. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Confraternitas. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Confraternitas under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.