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Printer's name
Vincentius Valgrisius
Biographical Text
On September 12, 1532, Valgrisi bought the Venetian workshop "Alla Testa d'Erasmo" in company with the Parma bookseller Andrea fu Agostino, whose daughter Eugenia he had married. Of the seventeen children born from their union, at the time of the drafting of the Will, drawn up in April 1566, were alive two females – Diana, wife of Giordano Ziletti, and Felicita, who would marry his nephew, Francesco – and six males, including the eldest son, Giorgio, and the cadet, Felice, who would inherit the paternal company. In a plea of 1567, linked to his request for the privilege of Venetian citizenship – which he never obtained – Valgrisi declared that he was fifty-seven years old and lived in Venice from thirty-six, in the parish of San Zulian, which, according to the testimony of Piovano during the trial brought to him by the Inquisition in 1570, he attended as a good Catholic and in which he had engaged several times as "gastaldo" or representative of the doge.
Translation of “VALGRISI, Vincenzo in ‘Dizionario Biografico.’” Accessed February 3, 2022.
Later Valgrisi was forced to change his mark and name to repress the reference to Erasmus, who was in disfavor in Venice. He re-modelled the mark as a "tau" with an entwined serpent and two hands coming out of clouds.
Later Valgrisi was forced to change his mark and name to repress the reference to Erasmus, who was in disfavor in Venice. He re-modelled the mark as a "tau" with an entwined serpent and two hands coming out of clouds.
Motto
Vincent
They will conquer
City and Country
Address: «Al segno d’Erasmo in Merceria presso l’horologio di San Marco» (Venice, Italy)
Bibliography
“VALGRISI, Vincenzo in ‘Dizionario Biografico.’” Accessed February 3, 2022. https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vincenzo-valgrisi_(Dizionario-Biografico).