Niccolo di Lorenzo della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, ca. 1470-1493 EPUB

by Boninger Lorenz Boninger

Part of the I Tatti studies in Italian renaissance history series

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A new history of one of the foremost printers of the Renaissance explores how the Age of Print came to Italy.Lorenz BÃ¶ninger offers a fresh history of the birth of print in Italy through the story of one of its most important figures, NiccolÃ² di Lorenzo della Magna. After having worked for several years for a judicial court in Florence, NiccolÃ² established his business there and published a number of influential books. Among these were Marsilio Ficinoâ€™s De christiana religione, Leon Battista Albertiâ€™s De re aedificatoria, Cristoforo Landinoâ€™s commentaries on Danteâ€™s Commedia, and Francesco Berlinghieriâ€™s Septe giornate della geographia. Many of these books were printed in vernacular Italian. Despite his prominence, NiccolÃ² has remained an enigma. A meticulous historical detective, BÃ¶ninger pieces together the thorough portrait that scholars have been missing. In doing so, he illuminates not only NiccolÃ²â€™s life but also the Italian printing revolution generally. Combining Renaissance studiesâ€™ traditional attention to bibliographic and textual concerns with a broader social and economic history of printing in Renaissance Italy, BÃ¶ninger provides an unparalleled view of the business of printing in its earliest years. The story of NiccolÃ² di Lorenzo furnishes a host of new insights into the legal issues that printers confronted, the working conditions in printshops, and the political forces that both encouraged and constrained the publication and dissemination of texts.