Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna and the social world of Florentine printing, ca. 1470-1493

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"Lorenz Böninger tells the story of Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna, a major printer of Renaissance Italy. Niccolò's hitherto mysterious life and career provide unparalleled insight into the business of printing in its earliest years, illuminating the economic, legal, and intellectual forces that surrounded the publication and dissemination of texts"--

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I. The introduction of printing in Florence: Bernardo Cennini and his family enterprise (1471-1472) -- Giorgio di Niccolò Baldesi, Giovanni di Piero da Magonza, and partners (1470-1473) -- Wool trade and printing -- II. Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna's first years of activity -- In the service of the Mercanzia, ca. 1464-1474 -- The collaboration with Giovanni di Piero da Magonza and Marsilio Ficino's De Christiana religione, ca. 1474-1476 -- Cappone Cappone and his circle, ca. 1475-1480 -- Printing for the Convent of Santo Spirito, ca. 1476-1477 -- Institutional and private commissions, ca. 1476-1480 -- The end of the company (1480-1482) -- III. At the peak of his career: A work proposal for the Ripoli Press (November 11, 1480) -- Cristoforo Landino's commented edition of Dante's Divine commedy (1481) -- From Landino's Disputationes camaldulenses (1480?) to Francesco Berlinghieri's Geographia (1481-1482) -- From Niccolò Perotti's Rudimenta grammatices (1483) to Saint Gregory's Morali (1483-1486) -- Baptista siculus and Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria (1485).