Background
The Zagurović family was related to the Serbian Crnojević family through the marriage of Jerolim Zagurović and Antonija Crnojević, the daughter of Lord Đurađ Crnojević of Zeta (r 1489-1496).
The Zagurović family was related to the Serbian Crnojević family through the marriage of Jerolim Zagurović and Antonija Crnojević, the daughter of Lord Đurađ Crnojević of Zeta (r 1489-1496).
Zagurović and Vićenco Vuković were the last printers of srbulje books They had a son, Anđelo, who lived in Venice. The Crnojević printing house was disestablihed when Đurađ Crnojević fled Zeta in 1496.
The types used in his printing house remained in the monastery until Jerolim Zagurović found them somewhere before 1569.
He wrote that he took some types to Venice. Because Jerolim insisted he brought types from Crnojević printing house to Venice, it was speculated that he had actually used Crnojević"s types in his printing house.
This was disputed by some later works which explained that the Crnojević printing house was so well reputated that other printing houses imitated its types. In 1569 he founded a printing house in Venice and began printing Cyrillic books
One of the motives of Jerolim Zagurović to establish the printing house was to earn some profit from it to compensate losses of the Zagurović family business caused by frequent Ottoman sieges of Kotor.
In 1569 he printed a psalter and in 1570 a prayer book This was the last Serbian Cyrillic book printed until the second half of the 18th century. There was only one book printed in 1638 in Venice by Bartholomew Ginami, but it was simply a reprint of the psalter with the book of hours published by Zagurović in 1569.
Zagurović"s printing press was firstly taken over by Jakov of Kamena Reka, and then in 1597 by Marco Ginami who used it until 1638.
Zagurović was Catholic and member of the noble Zagurović family from Kotor, Republic of Venice (today Montenegro).