Studies in Early Italian Printing

This selection of 57 studies by Dr. D. E. Rhodes focuses on the history of printing in Italy from the earliest printers of the 15th century to the flourishing of regional presses in the 16th and 17th centuries. The author is a leading authority on early printed books, and the present volume brings together for the first time a number of important articles on early printing in Venice, Rome, Mantua and Milan, and also covers the presses of Southern Italy, and the smaller Italian towns. The articles have been up-dated where necessary, with the addition of bibliographical notes and an index. There is a preface by George Painter.

Table of Contents

Preface
The ‘Quodlibeta’ of Petrus Johannis Olivi
A post-incunable edition of Aesop
Fra Giovanni di Firenze e i suoi tipografi veneziani
Phillippus Beroaldus, Minus Roscius, and an undated book
Su tre pubblicazione ufficiali dell’ordine di S. Girolamo
Ancora sull’ordine di S. Girolamo
Francesco Cosci of Siena and a strange reissue of his works
The first edition of the works of Chrysostomus Javellus
Chrysostomus Javellus: an addendum
On the use of the verb ‘facere’ in early colophons
An unidentified edition of Galen; Notes on Aurelio Pincio
Notes on the 1503 edition of Petrarch
Two Venetian editions of Aristotle’s ‘De anima’
Libri inglesi recensiti a Roma, 1668-1681
A rare printer at Rome: Ariottus de Trino
Pompilio Totti: publisher, engraver, Roman antiquary
Further notes on the publisher Giacomo Marrocchi
The printing of a group of Greek books in Rome
The British Museum’s copy of a rare book from Brescia: a problem in dating
More light on fifteenth-century piracies in Northern Italy
The early ownership of a Milanese incunable
An anonymous volume of sixteenth-century poems
Some rare Milanese editions of Virgil
Further notes on a Milanese edition of Virgil
A Milanese speech of 1509
A book from the Gonzaga library at Mantua
Filippo Nuvolone of Mantua, 1436—1478
Notes on the Chronica di Mantua of Mario Equicola
Some notes on Francesco Osanno of Mantua, Torquato Tasso and others
Antonio Zanchi of Bergamo, printer or publisher at Venice and Mantua
The first book printed at Bari, with additional notes
Errori tipografici in una edizione cosentina del XVI secolo
A book printed at Taranto in 1567
Towards an identification of Proctor 7393
Un tipografo ambulante e un nuovo luogo di stampa nel Cinquecento
Appunti bio-bibliografici su alcuni umanisti pugliesi dei secoli XV e XVI
Un letterato di Taranto: Cataldo Antonio Mannarino
Di un’orazione tenuta ma non stampata a Lecce nel 1611
Per la storia della stampa a Manfredonia nel Seicento
A Mondovi indulgence and Pierre Sabran
The incunabula of Siena
Benedictus Hectoris of Bologna and his complaint against typographical pirates
The first and second editions of the ‘Philogyne’ of Andrea Baiardi
An outline of Veronese bibliography, 1472-1600
A note on Petrus Feltrus
Rettifiche e aggiunte alla storia della stampa a Padova, 1471-1600
Ancora per lo stampatore del Mesue
Domenico Serafini e un ignoto incunabolo torinese
Printing in Italy in the seventeenth century
Roberto Meietti e alcuni documenti della controversia fra Papa Paolo V e Venezia
Accertamenti sulla stampa a Velletri prima del 1700
Seventeenth century printing at Scigliano (Cosenza)
Some notes on the import of books from Italy into England, 1628-1650
Note sui primi libri stampati a Montefiascone
Primo libro stampato a Montefiascone?
Rosichino and Pietro da Cortona: a correction. With notes on the printer Fabio de Falco
The printing career of Marco Claseri. 1597-1623
Additional Notes
Index.

Text: English, Italian