Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna and the social world of Florentine printing, ca. 1470-1493

A new history of one of the foremost printers of the Renaissance explores how the Age of Print came to Italy. Lorenz Böninger offers a fresh history of the birth of print in Italy through the story of one of its most important figures, Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna. After having worked for severa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Böninger, Lorenz (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
Series:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
Subjects:
Laurentii, Nicolaus, > active 1475-1486.
1400-1499
Printers > Italy > Florence > History > 15th century.
Publishers and publishing > Italy > History > 15th century.
Imprimeurs > Italie > Florence > Histoire > 15e siècle.
HISTORY / Europe / Italy.
Civilization
Printers
Publishers and publishing
Florence (Italy) > Civilization.
Italy
Italy > Florence
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Introduction of Printing in Florence
  • 1. Bernardo Cennini and His Family Enterprise, 1471-1472
  • 2. Giorgio di Niccolò Baldesi, Giovanni di Piero da Magonza, and Partners, 1470-1473
  • 3. Wool Trade and Printing
  • Part II. Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna's First Years of Activity
  • 4. In the Service of the Mercanzia, 1464-1475
  • 5. The Collaboration with Giovanni di Piero da Magonza, and Marsilio Ficino's De Christiana religione, ca. 1474-1476
  • 6. Cappone Capponi and His Circle, 1475-1480
  • 7. Printing for the Convent of Santo Spirito, ca. 1476-1477
  • 8. Institutional and Private Commissions, ca. 1476-1480
  • 9. The End of the Company, 1480-1482
  • Part III. At the Peak of Niccolò di Lorenzo's Career
  • 1.0 A Work Proposal for the Ripoli Press, 11 November 1480
  • 11. Cristoforo Landino's Commented Edition of Dante's Divine Comedy (1481)
  • 12. From Cristoforo Landino's Disputationes camaldulenses (1480?) to Francesco Berlinghieri's Geographia (1481-1482)
  • 13. From Niccolò Perotti's Rudimenta grammatices (1483) to Saint Gregory's Morali (1483-1486)
  • 14. Baptista Siculus and Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria (1485)
  • Epilogue
  • Abbreviations
  • Appendix A. Books Printed by Niccolò Di Lorenzo Della Magna or Attributed to his Press
  • Appendix B. Documents
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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