Early Venetian Printing Illustrated Color Edition |
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| Author:
| Ongania, Ferdinando
Castellani, Carlo |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4936-3586-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $31.99 |
Book Description:
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PRINTING WAS introduced into Venice by John of Speyer, in the year 1469, and the first book which he printed was the Epistolce ad familiares of Cicero: « Primus in Adriaca formis impressit aenis Urbe libros Spira genitus de gente Johannes. » he says at the end of this edition. In the same year 1469 John of Speyer published the Storia naturale of Pliny, in a great folio volume, a stupendous typographical work and a second edition of the Epistolce ad...
More DescriptionPRINTING WAS introduced into Venice by John of Speyer, in the year 1469, and the first book which he printed was the Epistolce ad familiares of Cicero:
« Primus in Adriaca formis impressit aenis Urbe libros Spira genitus de gente Johannes. »
he says at the end of this edition. In the same year 1469 John of Speyer published the Storia naturale of Pliny, in a great folio volume, a stupendous typographical work and a second edition of the Epistolce ad "familiares." He then began to print the work of S. Augustine "De Civitate Dei," but was unable to complete it, as he died suddenly at the end of that year. His brother Windelin having finished and published this work in 1470, recorded in the colophon how death had cut short his brother's work, and announced his own succession, adding that he was not inferior to his brother in the art and that he had taken up his residence in Venice.
« Vindelimus adest iusdem frater et arteNon minor, hadriacaque morabitur urbe. »
The press of Vindelinus was most active; in the year 1470 alone he published seventeen works, then from that year up to 1477 editions of Latin and Italian authors followed one another in large numbers, many being editiones principes, as of the Latins: Virgil, Sallust, Martial, Quintus Curtius, Priscian, Cicero "De naiura deorum" and "De officiis"; of the Italians: the "Canioniere del Petrarca" and the "Divina comedia de Dante Alighieri" with the commentary of Benvenuto da Imola.
The two printers of Speyer printed in a very beautiful round character made in imitation of the best Italian manuscripts and especially of the antiphonaries and other choral books of the churches of Italy. Windelin also cut Gothic type, having as early as 1471 published in fine gothic characters the work of Panormita: Pars secunda Lecturae in secundum librum Decretalium (Panzer III. p. 73, n. 35).