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Further Notes on the Publisher Giacomo Mazzocchi*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

Dennis E. Rhodes
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In December 1970 the British Museum acquired from the British School at Rome a small printed book, in quarto, undated and without title or imprint, and consisting of twelve leaves of text, with a number of woodcut ornamental borderpieces, and on the first three leaves two woodcut signs of the zodiac at the top of each page. The book is very rare, copies being known in the following libraries: Rome, Biblioteca Angelica; Vatican; Seville, Biblioteca Colombina; London, British Museum (formerly British School at Rome copy, acquired by Thomas Ashby from the Rome bookseller Silvio Bocca in 1924); Milan, private collection of C. E. Rava. Theodor Mommsen wrote in 1893 that another copy ‘nuper comparavit bibliotheca nostra regia’, i.e. the Preussische Staatsbibliothek: I have not ascertained whether this copy is still in Berlin. Sander describes the book as a Calendarium, and adds, without giving any reason, that it was printed before September, 1515. As will be seen later, it must have been printed before May, 1515. Rava, in his recent supplement to Sander, shows that as Sander had not seen a copy he makes a number of errors in his description. Rava rightly says that this little work ought to be described as ‘Calendarii et Fasti’, since it is not a calendar in the modern sense, but more precisely it reproduces the texts, partly fragmentary, of ancient calendars and Roman fasti engraved on slabs of marble, which the anonymous compiler had collected in various places.

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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 40 , November 1972 , pp. 239 - 242
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Copyright © British School at Rome 1972

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References

1 Mommsen, T. in Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. 1, pt. 1. Editio altera (Berlin 1893) 205.Google Scholar

2 Sander, Max, Le livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'à 1530 (Milan 1942) vol. 1, 279, no. 1528Google Scholar.

3 Rava, C. E., Supplément à Max Sander, Le livre à figures italien de la Renaissance (Milan 1969) 30, no. 1528Google Scholar.*

4 The Duke of Calabria was the son of the Aragonese King of Naples, in this case the heir of King Ferrante I, afterwards King Alfonso II (died 1495).

5 The identity of this Thamyra or Thamyras is obscure, since the only Thamyras recorded in the reference books is the mythical Thracian poet who challenged the Muses.

6 Georgius Fabricius, Roma. Antiquitatum libri III. Itinerant lib. I. Basileae, Typis Oporinianis, 1587, pt. 2, 167.

7 Ibid., 174.

8 Ibid., 189.

9 Fastorum anni Romani a Verrio Flacco ordinatorum reliquiae ex marmorearum tabularum fragmentis Praeneste nuper effossis collectae et illustratae. Accedunt Verrii Flacci operum fragmenta omnia quae exstant ac Fasti Romani singulorum mensium ex hactenus repertis calendariis marmoreis inter se conlatis expressi cura et studio P.F.F. [Petrus Franciscus Fogginius] Romae, 1779, p. 100.

10 Weiss, op. cit., 158.

11 Weiss, op. cit., 158–9.

12 Ascarelli, Fernanda, Annali tipografici di Giacomo Mazzocchi (Florence 1961) no. 5Google Scholar.

13 Zabughin, V., Giulio Pomponio Leto (Rome 1909) vol. i, 9Google Scholar.

14 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, Bd. VII (Leipzig 1938) nos. 7992–8014Google Scholar.

15 There is no other Peter among the booksellers listed in the index to the British Museum's Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy, 1465–1600 (London 1958)Google Scholar or in the section devoted to Rome in Norton, F. J., Italian printers 1501–1520 (London 1958) 91–104Google Scholar.

16 Hubert Elie, ‘Un Lunévillois imprimeur à Rome au début du XVIeme siècle: Éitienne Guillery’, Gutenberg Jahrbuch (1939) 185–96, and (1944/49) 128–37. I am not convinced by the argument of Dr. Lamberto Donati that Guilleretus was already printing in Rome before 1500: see his article ‘Stampe quattrocentine di Stefano Guillireto’ in Essays in honour of Victor Scholderer (ed. Rhodes, D. E.) (Mainz 1970) 144–58Google Scholar. There is no documentary proof.

17 The tradition that Mazzocchi escaped from the Sack of Rome and found refuge in Zurich where he printed two more books has now been disproved, since the two books in question have been shown to bear false imprints. See my review of F. Ascarelli, op. cit., in The Library (June 1963) 152.