Printer Item Type Metadata
Printer's name
Antonio Pinelli
Biographical Text
Antonio Pinelli was active in Venice at the end of the Seicento and beginning of the Settecento. In 1617 his family became the Stampatori Ducali, official printers to the Venetian Senate, with one of the most important private libraries in Italy.
Date(s)
1571-c. 1617
City and Country
Campiello Santa Maria Formosa, 30122, Venezia, ITA
Notes
"There is no documentary evidence that the family was of Ligurian origin, a hypothesis probably born from the approach to the figure of the well-known Humanist Giovan Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601), a Genoese patrician who spent most of his life in Padua. It is certain, however, that, at the time of registration in the art of the printers and booksellers of the lagoon city, on June 20, 1601, Antonio I paid a registration fee of five ducats, proper to the Venetians, instead of the ten paid by foreigners. He declared on that occasion that he had been a shopkeeper for five years, as required by the laws in force, with Marco Bindoni...The headquarters of their activity was located in the heart of the city, near campo S. Maria Formosa, not far from piazza S. Marco."(transl. from DBI)
Bibliography
Giachery, Alessia. –PINELLI in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 83 (2015), 2015.https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pinelli_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/