By Angela Nuovo
This pioneering research ways the hot printed-book in Renaissance Italy from the point of view of its publishers and booksellers, examining their responses to the demanding situations of construction and their inventive ways to the distribution and sale in their item.
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56 When the value of the books proved to be less than the sum owed, 54 Both this document and successive documents show that Ugolino da Fabriano had already withdrawn from the partnership. He was replaced by Francesco Bonomini, Giovan Pietro’s brother. 55 Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Notarile Antecosiminiano, 18581, ff. 120r–126r, cited in Armando F. Verde, Lo Studio fiorentino 1473–1503: Ricerche e documenti. 6 vols. (Florence: Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, 1973–2010), 2:244. The act is a copy of its analogue signed in Venice, which to date has not been found.
The entire event is related in Lowry, The World of Aldus Manutius, 18–19. The formal agreement reached on 29 May 1480 was subscribed by the following: on one side, Johannes de Colonia, represented by Johannes Manthen, who also signed in his own name, by Alvise Dardani and Alvise Donà, and by the widow of Johannes da Spira, Paola the commercial network of the company of venice29 only a year because of the disappearance of both of the principal partners, was impressive. 24 Although the Company no longer printed under that name after 1480, it continued to exist as a business, using the vernacular “Zuan da Colonia, Nicolò Jenson e Compagni” or the Latin “Johannes de Colonia et Nicolaus Jenson et socii” to sell both its own books and those produced by others.
Verde, Lo Studio fiorentino 1473–1503: Ricerche e documenti. 6 vols. (Florence: Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, 1973–2010), 2:244. The act is a copy of its analogue signed in Venice, which to date has not been found. ” He was therefore evidently a native of the German city of Emmerich. 56 All of the various Tuscan booksellers in the background of this dispute between Bonomini and Lof seem to have been involved in resales, no longer obliged to sell the Company’s books exclusively (as can be seen in the fact that Lof wanted some of the books in those bookshops, but not others), and not directly in its employ.
