Giunta (printer)

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The Giunta (Giunti, Spanish: Junti , junta or juncta even Zonta called) was a book printer family from Florence , which since the end of the 15th century in Venice , Florence, Lyon , London , Burgos , Salamanca and Madrid Book printing houses built.

The oldest printing house in Venice was built by Bernardo and Lucantonio Giunti around 1477, passed to his son Tommaso Giunti under the Haeredes LA de Giunti company after the founder's death in 1537 , burned down in 1557, but was rebuilt and produced its last print in 1657 .

Since it was only pursued in the sense of a broad impact, its prints are partly behind those of Aldus Manutius . Your only significant print is the edition of Cicero by Victorius (1534).

Scribes' workshop - woodcut from 1490 from the Italian Bible

Filippo Giunta (* 1450, † 1517), the brother of Lucantonio Giunti, founded in Florence a printing company that in 1490 the so-called Malermi - Bible brought out - the first complete Vulgate of Italy, Nicolò Malermi had translated 1,471th Their carefully executed outline style and the numerous finely executed woodcuts were to set the style for all of Italy and also for the art of printing in Lyon up to the 16th century .

Signet of Giunti from 1497

The print "Zenobii procerbia" (1497) with the font of the Florentine Homer published in 1488 also emerged from the House of Florence . After Greek classics had already been published from that year, Latin classics were also published from 1503. These Giuntinen were valued all over Europe. The Giunta family used the Florentine lily as a coat of arms . After Filippo's death (1517), his sons, Benedetto and Bernardo Giunti (* 1487, † 1551), and then their heirs, continued the shop until 1623. In terms of letters and paper, the products of the latter are little inferior to those of the Manucci and are valued as juntins and giuntines by bibliophiles . This is how they designed the first edition of Plutarch and Giovanni Boccaccio's Decamerone (1527). They also provided several parchment prints that were well worth seeing .

Smaller products emerged from the Lyoner Offizin (until 1592) founded by Jacopo de Giunti from Florence in 1520. At Burgos, Juan Junta printed in 1526, 1528 and 1551 and Filippo Junta , perhaps identical to the Florentine Filippo the Younger, from 1582 to 1593; to Salamanca Juan Junta from 1534 to 1552, probably identical with the aforementioned Junta of Burgos, and in 1582 Luca Junta; to Madrid 1595 Giulio Giunta, who died in 1618, and after him Thomas Junta or Junti (1594–1624), who was a royal printer from 1621.

literature

  • De Florentina Ivntarum Typographia Eivsqve Censoribvs: Ex Qva Graeci, Latini, Tvsci Scriptores Ope Codicvm Manvscriptorvm A Viris Clarissimis Pristinae Integritati Restitvti In Lvcem Prodiervnt; Accedvnt Excerpta Vberrima Praefationvm Libris Singvlis Praemissarvm / Avctore Angelo Maria Bandinio, IVD. - Republ. - Ridgewood, NJ: Gregg, 1965. - 144, 281 p .; (lat) publ. first: Lucae MDCC.LXXXXI. Typis Francisci Bonsignori. - Ent. Pars I and II
  • William A. Pettas: An International Publishing Family: The Giunti . In: Library Quarterly. Information, community, policy. Vol. 44. The University Chicago Press. 1974. pp. 334-349.

Web links

Commons : Giunta / Giunti, printer and publisher  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Löffler / Joachim Kirchner: Lexicon of the entire book system, KW Hiersemann: 1935, p. 221
  2. ^ Andrea Ottone: L'attività editoriale dei Giunti nella Venezia del Cinquecento . Tesi di laurea, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, July 13, 2002. Full text
  3. ^ Frank I. Schechter: The Historical Foundations of the Law Relating to Trade-Marks, NA New York: The Lawbook Exchange 1999, p. 67, ISBN 1-584-77035-X
  4. ↑ Marion Janzin / Joachim Güntner: The Book of the book: 5000 yearbook story NA Schlütersche Verlagsbuchhandlung: 2006, p 143, ISBN 3-89993-805-4