Giacomo Mazzocchi
Giacomo Mazzocchi, in Latin on his titlepages Jacobus Mazochius, (active 1505
Mazzocchi's other books include Latin translations of Greek texts, among them Byzantine authors little known at the time such as the historians
At the same time, under the title Carmina Apposita Pasquino, Mazzocchi published annual collections of satirical
Mazzocchi's scholarly standing was high enough for him to be appointed, in 1515, one of the Papal Commissioners for Antiquities alongside the artist
Typographically Mazzocchi's work is of interest for his very early use of a large-format upper-case
He disappeared during the Sack of Rome (1527) and nothing subsequent is known of him.
References
- ^ http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giacomo-mazzocchi_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ (online biography by Massimiliano Albanese from Dizionario Biographico degli Italiani, vol. 72 (2008))
- ^ D.S. Rhodes, "Further notes on Publisher Giacomo Mazzocchi", Papers of the British School at Rome 40 (1972:239-42).
- ^ ViaLibri: Books of 1509: Procopius, De Bello Persico: the first Latin translation, and the first notice of Mazzocchi as a printer; a bibliography of books published by Mazzocchi is F. Ascarelli, Annali di Giacomo Mazzocchi (Florence) 1961.
- ^ "Inscriptions of the Ancient City [of Rome]". Mazzocchi signs the dedication, but the antiquarian and bibliographer "Gorio" accused him of dishonesty and ascribed the collection of Roman inscriptions to "Francesco degli Albertini" [sic] (The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge vol. I pt ii. (London, 1842) s.v. "Albertini, Francesco degli" ) but The Cambridge Modern History (1902: vol. I:549) ascribes the work to Mazzocchi and his "collaborator" Francesco Albertini. Illustration of the open book Archived 2008-03-07 at the Wayback Machine); for the scholarly context of this publication, see W. Stenhouse, Reading Inscriptions and Writing Ancient History. Historical Scholarship in the Late Renaissance (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 86) University of London, 2005.
- ^ Untitled tract of 1509 in the British Library, Case 125 dd 22, noted in Ruth Olitsky Rubinstein, "'Tempus edax rerum': A Newly Discovered Painting by Hermannus Posthumus" The Burlington Magazine 127, No. 988 (July 1985: 425-36) p. 426, note.
- E. H. Gombrich, "Hypnerotomachiana" Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 14.1/2 (1951:119-125), noted p. 123, note 1.
- ^ R. Garnett, "A Laureate of Caesar Borgia" The English Historical Review 17 No. 65 (January 1902:15-19) p. 15.
- ^ As Robert W. Scheller remarks in passing, "L'union des princes: Louis XII, His Allies and the Venetian Campaign 1509" Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 27.4 (1999:195-242) p. 207.
- ^ "ViaLibri: Books from 1512: "Concilium Lateranense V"". Archived from the original on 2013-02-22. Retrieved 2008-04-01.
- ^ Albanese (see note 1)
- ^ http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/pasquillus-carmina-5624364-details.aspx?pos=10&intObjectID=5624364&sid=&page=9 (Christies' auction catalogue entry for Carmina apposita Pasquillo, 1513, with illustration)