Dolfino Landolfi

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Dolfino Landolfi (Giovanni Rodolfo) (* around 1500 in Poschiavo , Graubünden , Switzerland ; † before 1571 there ) was a Swiss politician, podestà and printer . In 1547 he set up the first printing house in Graubünden in Poschiavo, where he had mainly Italian-language Protestant writings printed, which were also secretly distributed in Catholic Italy.

Life

Dolfino Landolfi was born Giovanni Rodolfo Landolfi in Poschiavo, the son of Podestà, the governor, Antonio Landolfi. However, the exact date of birth, year of birth, childhood, youth and education are not recorded.

He himself also became Podestà in 1545 in Traona in Valtellina . In 1547, the same year Italian refugees founded a Reformed community in Poschiavo, he opened the first printing house in Graubünden there. Before that he had already conveyed German and Romance evangelical writings. Bartolomeo Zanetti, Francesco Moretti and Lodovico Britannico il vecchio provided him with the equipment for this new printing house.

He first secretly printed evangelical works that were considered heretical in Catholic Italy . He spread evangelical prayers, tracts and songs that were secretly brought to Italy. His first editions in 1549 included the Statuti di Valtellina (German: “ Statuten des Veltlins”), La Instruttione christiana (German: “The Christian teaching”) by Pietro Paolo Vergerio , the first Reformed Italian-language catechism and the first papal directory of the Librorum prohibitorum (German: «Forbidden Books»). He published only one work between 1560 and 1571, perhaps due to government intervention or caution.

After his death, around 1620, during the Counter Reformation in Graubünden and Valtellina, some of his published works were destroyed. The Landolfi printing works in Poschiavo existed with a few interruptions until around 1720.

Printed works at Landolfi, 1550–1557

  • Li statuti, le ordinationi, et leggi municipali, de la terra & territorio di Poschiavo; testratte da li statutti antichi del detto commune, & in uno volume ridottti, nel 1388 et di novo reformati, per molti discretti, & prudenti homini da la detta communità à ció eletti, & deputati… Dolfino Landolfi, Poschiavo 1550.
  • Francesco Negri: De Fanini Faventini, ac Dominici Bassanensis morte, Qui nuper ob Christum in Italia Rom. Pon. Iussu impie occisi sunt, Brevis Historia . Dolfino Landolfi, Poschiavo 1550.
  • Pietro Paolo Vergerio : Al serenissimo re d'Inghilterra Edoardo Sesto, de portamenti di Papa Giulio III et quale habbia ad essere il concilio, che egli intende di fare . Dolfino Landolfi, Poschiavo, November 1550.
  • Risposta del Vergerio ad una ambasciata del Cardinal di Trento . Dolfino Landolfi, Poschiavo 1553.
  • Celio Secondo Curione : De amplitudine beati regni Die, dialogi sive liebri duo, ad Sigismundum Augustum Poloniae regem potentissimum, & clementissimum . Dolfino Landolfi & Johannes Oporinus , Poschiavo & Basel 1554.
  • Apologia di M. Michelagnolo Fiorentino, ne la qualte si tratta de la vera e falsa chiesa de l'essere e qualità de la messa ... scritta contro a un'heretico, per M. Stefano de Giogrio Catani d'Agnedina di soprae . In collaboration with Dolfino Landolfi, Chamogascko (today: Chamues-ch ) 1557.

literature

  • Conradin Bonorand : Dolfin Landolfi von Poschiavo, the first Graubünden printer of the Reformation period. In: Festgabe Leonhard von Muralt. 1970, pp. 228-244.
  • Remo Bornatico: L'arte tipografica nelle Tre Leghe (1547–1803) e nei Grigioni (1803–1975). 1976, pp. 39-55. (With list of printed works)
  • Adolf Collenberg: Landolfi, Dolfino. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 14, 2007 , accessed December 16, 2019 .
  • Doris Schmidiger, Gisela Schlageter: Three tickets and that's that! BoD - Books on Demand, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-8662-3 .
  • Manfred E. Welti: Brief history of the Italian Reformation (= writings of the Association for Reformation History . Vol. 193). Mohn, Gütersloh 1985, ISBN 3-579-01663-6 , p. 93 ( digitized in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doris Schmidiger, Gisela Schlageter: Three tickets and that's that! BoD - Books on Demand, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-8662-3 , page 57.
  2. ^ Adolf Collenberg: Landolfi, Dolfino. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ [1] 6 printed works by Landolfi 1550–1557 at e-rara.ch
personal data
SURNAME Landolfi, Dolfino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dolfin Landolfi, Giovanni Rodolfo Landolfi (Christian name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician, Podesta and founder of the first Graubünden printing company in Poschiavo in 1547
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Poschiavo , Graubünden , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH before 1571
Place of death Poschiavo , Graubünden , Switzerland