Enrico Ca 'Zeno

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Enrico Ca 'Zeno worked as a printer and dealer in Vicenza . There it is documented for the first time on March 9, 1480 on the occasion of the purchase of 100 copies by Cicero's De Oratore . In 1497 he, his son Giovanni Maria and another bookstore employee are mentioned in a will. In the period from 1480 to 1499, 22 prints are known to have been printed or published by him, another eight from the years 1506 to 1509. From 1507 to 1509 he ran the printing shop together with his son Giovanni Maria, who died before April 3, 1510 . Enrico himself can still be documented in 1523 and 1528.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Ankenbauer (2010), pp. 55–56; Ankenbauer (2017).

literature

  • Norbert Ankenbauer: "that i wanted to experience meer newer dyng". The language of the new in the “Paesi novamente retrovati” (Vicenza, 1507) and in its German translation (Nuremberg, 1508). Frank & Timme, Berlin 2010.
  • Norbert Ankenbauer (Ed.): Paesi novamente retrovati - Newe unbekanthe landed. A digital edition of early discovery reports. Editiones Electronicae Guelferbytanae, Wolfenbüttel 2017 online .
  • Giovanni Mantese: Le origini della stampa a Vicenza. In: Fernando Bandini, Francesco Barberi, Ugo Baroncelli [among others]: 1474. Le origini della stampa a Vicenza. Neri Pozza, Vicenza 1975, pp. 33-70.

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personal data
SURNAME Ca 'Zeno, Enrico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sancto Ursio, Henricus de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Incunabula printer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1480
DATE OF DEATH after 1528