Nicolaus Laurentii
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Nicolaus Laurentii (fl. 1475–1486)[2] is the Latin form of the name of Niccolò di Lorenzo, also known as Niccolò Todesco ("Nicholas the German"). He was a German printer who lived in Florence, Italy in the late fifteenth century.[3] He was among the first printers to use copper plate engravings and printed a number of works of importance to the Italian Renaissance.
Biography
Laurentii moved to Florence from
nunnery of the Dominican Order
. The sisters there served as compositors and printers.
Among the works printed by Laurentii are
Geographica
.
Works printed
Nicolaus Laurentii's printed works include:
- Marsilio Ficino, De christiana religione (1476)
- Antonio Bettini, Monte Santo di Dio (1477)
- Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De medicina (1478)
- Dante Alighieri, La Commedia (1481)
- Francesco Berlinghieri, Septe Giornate della Geographia di Francesco Berlinghieri (1482)
- De Re Aedificatoria(1485)
References
- ^ "Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France (FR) : Rés. Yd. 17". Retrieved 2023-12-20.
- ^ "Library of Congress LCCN Permalink nr94030737". lccn.loc.gov. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
- ISBN 978-0-674-25113-7.
- "Printers and Printing, 15th Century." Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Vol. 23. CRC Press, 1978.
- Roberto Ridolfi. “Contributi sopra Niccolò Todesco,” La Bibliofilia, vol. 58, no. 1, 1956, pp. 1–14.
- Roberto Ridolfi. “Le Ultime imprese tipografiche di Niccolò Todesco,” La Bibliofilia, vol. 68, no. 2, 1966, pp. 140–151.
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