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Early printing press on Italian soil were established by a German colony in Subiaco in 1464, when Arnold Pannartz and Konrad Sweynheim produced a Latin grammar by Donatus.[4] Printing technology later developed in the 1460s in Rome and Venice, and in the 1470s in Bergamo, Bologna, Brescia, Cremona, Ferrara, Florence, Genoa, Lucca, Mantua, Messina, Milan, Modena, Naples, Padua, Palermo, Parma, Pavia, Perugia, Piacenza, Reggio Calabria, Treviso, Turin, Verona and Vicenza. By the 1480s printing facilities were also present in L'Aquila, Pisa, Reggio Emilia, Siena, and Udine.[5][6]
At the time of
Notable publishers in Italy include Valentino Bompiani, Giovanni De Agostini, Giulio Einaudi, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Aldo Garzanti, Ulrico Hoepli, Leo Longanesi, Arnoldo Mondadori, Angelo Rizzoli and Albert Skira.
The
Bookselling
Notable bookstores in Italy include:
- Casella Studio Bibliografico (est. 1825), Naples
- Feltrinelli (est. 1954), chain retailer
- Libreria antiquaria Bourlot (est. 1848), Turin
- Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco (est. 1912), Turin
- Libreria Internazionale Luxemburg (est. 1872), Turin [8]
- Libreria Babele (est. 1987), Milan
- Libreria Bozzi (est. 1810), Genoa
- Libreria Internazionale Hoepli (est. 1879), Milan
- Mondadori Mediastore (est. 1907), Milan
- Rizzoli (est. 1927), Milan
Fairs
In popular culture
See also
- Category:Book publishing companies of Italy
- Collection (publishing)
- Publishing in Italy (in Italian)
- List of libraries in Italy
- Italian bibliophiles (fr)
- Italian literature
- Media of Italy
- Copyright law of Italy
Notes
References
- ^ "The World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2018", Publishers Weekly, vol. 265, no. 38, US, 14 September 2018
- ^ a b "World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2017", Publishers Weekly, US, 25 August 2017
- ^ "World's 52 Largest Book Publishers, 2016", Publishers Weekly, US, 26 August 2016
- ^ Peckham 1940.
- ^ Proctor 1898.
- ^ "Index: Place of Publication", Incunabula Short Title Catalogue: the International Database of 15th-century European Printing, British Library, retrieved 3 December 2017. (Searchable by town)
- JSTOR 25542277.
- ^ "Libreria Internazionale Luxemburg".
Bibliography
in English
- G.W. Porter; G.K. Fortescue, eds. (1889). "Bibliographies of Countries: Italy". List of Bibliographical Works in the Reading Room of the British Museum (2nd ed.). London. )
- George Haven Putnam (1897). "Privileges and Censorship in Italy, 1498-1798". Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages. US: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
- OCLC 6438080 – via HathiTrust.
- Felix Reichmann (1938). "Book Trade at the Time of the Roman Empire". S2CID 144265336.
- John F. Peckham (1940). Early printing in Italy, with special reference to the classics, 1469-1517. US: Princeton University Library.
- ISBN 978-0-8247-2023-0. (Includes info about Italy)
- M.D. Feld (1985). "A Theory of the Early Italian Printing Firm". Harvard Library Bulletin. 33. US.
- Enzo Esposito; et al. (1990). "Bibliographical Studies in Italy since 1945". JSTOR 25542279.
- Deborah Parker (1996). "Women in the Book Trade in Italy, 1475-1620". S2CID 164039060.
- Paul F. Gehl (2000), Printing History and Book Arts: Recent Trends in the History of the Italian Book, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-27 – via Newberry Library
- "Italy: Directory: Publishers". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.
- Lisa Pon; Craig Kallendorf, eds. (2009). Books of Venice. ISBN 9781584562573.
- Paul F. Gehl (2013). "Advertising or Fama? Local Markets for Schoolbooks in Sixteenth-Century Italy". In Benito Rial Costas (ed.). Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe: A Contribution to the History of Printing and the Book Trade in Small European and Spanish Cities. Brill. ISBN 9789004235748.
- Neil Harris (2013). "Italy". In Michael F. Suarez; ISBN 978-0-19-967941-6. [2]
- Angela Nuovo (2013). Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance. Brill. ISBN 9789004245471.
- Hannah Marcus (2016). "Bibliography and Book Bureaucracy: Reading Licenses and the Circulation of Prohibited Books in Counter-Reformation Italy". S2CID 159814116.
in Italian
- Bollettino delle pubblicazioni italiane [Bulletin of Italian publications] (in Italian), Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze 1886-
- La Bibliofilia [The Book-Lover] (in Italian), Florence: Olschki1899-
- "Biblioteca di bibliografia italiana", Biblioteca di Bibliografia Italiana Bbi (in Italian), Olschki, ISSN 0067-74181923-
Images
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Reader on bus, Italy, 2006
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Readers in Limone sul Garda, Brescia, 2007
External links
- "(Place:IT)", Incunabula Short Title Catalogue: the International Database of 15th-century European Printing, British Library (Bibliography of editions published on Italian peninsula)
- "National Bibliographic Register: Italy". Ifla.org. The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
- "Italian Printed Books 1501-1800: Some Bibliographical Resources". Help for Researchers. UK: British Library.
- "(su:Book industries and trade -- Italy)". WorldCat. US: OCLC. (Bibliography)