Lucantonio Giunti

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Lucantonio Giunti
The Florentine giglio, printer's mark of Lucantonio Giunti, from a missal printed in Venice in 1521
Born1457 (1457)
Florence
Died3 April 1538(1538-04-03) (aged 80–81)
Venice
Resting placeSanta Maria Novella, Florence
NationalityFlorentine
Other names
List
  • Luceantonius de Gionta
  • Luceantonius De Giunta
  • Lucas Antonius de Giuntis
  • Lucantonio Degionta
  • Lucantonio Deionta
  • Lucantonio Dezunta
  • Lucantonio Fiorentino
  • Lucantonius Florentinus
  • Lucas Antonius Florentinus
  • Luc Antoine Giunta
  • Lucantonio Giunta
  • Lucas Antonius Giunta
  • Luca-Antonio Giunta
  • Luca-Antonio Giunti
  • Luc'Antonio Giunti
  • Lucaantonius Iunta
  • Lucæantonius Iunta
  • Lucaantonius Junta
  • Luce Antonius Junta
  • Luceantonius Junte
  • Lucantonio de Zonta
  • Lucas Antonius de Zontis
  • Lucantonio de Zunta

Lucantonio Giunti or Giunta (1457 – 3 April 1538) was a Florentine book publisher and printer, active in Venice from 1489,[1] a member of the Giunti family of printers. His publishing business was successful, and among the most important in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.[2]: 20  Through partnerships, often with members of his family, he expanded the business through much of Europe. At about the time of his death in 1538 there were Giunti presses in Florence and Lyon, Giunti bookshops or warehouses in Antwerp, Burgos, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Medina del Campo, Paris, Salamanca and Zaragoza,[1] and agencies in numerous cities of the Italian peninsula, including Bologna, Brescia, Genoa, Livorno, Lucca, Naples, Piacenza, Pisa, Rome, Siena and Turin, as well as the islands of Sardinia and Sicily.[3]: 174 

Life

Lucantonio Giunti was one of the seven sons of Giunta di Biagio, a weaver. He was born in the parish of

Johan Emerich of Speier.[1]

  • Page from the Malermi Bible in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, printed text, with hand-coloured woodcut illustrations, 1490
    Page from the Malermi Bible in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, printed text, with hand-coloured woodcut illustrations, 1490
  • Title-page of the Missale predicatorum, 1504
    Title-page
    of the Missale predicatorum, 1504
  • Title-page of a missal, 1537
    Title-page of a missal, 1537

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Massimo Ceresa (2001) Giunti, Lucantonio, il Vecchio (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 57. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed January 2016.
  2. ISBN 0520057856
    .
  3. ISBN 8822245040
    . p. 169–192.
  4. ^ William A. Pettas (1974). An International Renaissance Publishing Family: The Giunti. The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 44 (4): 334–349. (subscription required)


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