Lucantonio Giunta

1457 (age 81)

Florence, Province of Florence, Italy

At about the time of his death in 1538 there were Giunti presses in Florence and Lyon, Giunti bookshops or warehouses in Antwerp, Burgos, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Medina del Campo, Paris, Salamanca and Zaragoza, and agencies in numerous cities of the Italian peninsula, including Bologna, Brescia, Genoa, Livorno, Lucca, Naples, Piacenza, Pisa, Rome, Siena and Turin, as well as the islands of Sardinia and Sicily.:174 Lucantonio Giunti was one of the seven sons of Giunta di Biagio, a weaver. He was born in the parish of Santa Lucia d"Ognissanti in Florence in 1457. Foreign all three he employed the printer and typographer Matteo Capcasa. From 1491 Giunti was constantly active as a publisher, and later as a printer too. He issued some 410 titles during his lifetime. He did not have his own printing workshop until about 1500. Until that time, he employed independent typographers, most frequently Johan Emerich of Speier.

Lucantonio Giunta Edit Profile

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Career

At about the time of his death in 1538 there were Giunti presses in Florence and Lyon, Giunti bookshops or warehouses in Antwerp, Burgos, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Medina del Campo, Paris, Salamanca and Zaragoza, and agencies in numerous cities of the Italian peninsula, including Bologna, Brescia, Genoa, Livorno, Lucca, Naples, Piacenza, Pisa, Rome, Siena and Turin, as well as the islands of Sardinia and Sicily.:174

Lucantonio Giunti was one of the seven sons of Giunta di Biagio, a weaver. He was born in the parish of Santa Lucia d"Ognissanti in Florence in 1457. Foreign all three he employed the printer and typographer Matteo Capcasa.

From 1491 Giunti was constantly active as a publisher, and later as a printer too.

He issued some 410 titles during his lifetime. He did not have his own printing workshop until about 1500.

Until that time, he employed independent typographers, most frequently Johan Emerich of Speier.

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His publishing business was successful, and among the most important in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.:20 Through partnerships, often with members of his family, he expanded the business through much of Europe.

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