Intellectual and Technological Change Case Study: Printing in Venice.
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Intellectual and Technological
ChangeCase Study: Printing in Venice
“... books have
multiplied to such an
extent that everyone
can study, and even
more so because the
majority are printed in
our mother tongue: and
so the kittens have
opened their eyes so
that everyone can see
and understand”
[Leonardo Fioravanti, Dello
specchio di scientia universale
(The Mirror of Universal
Knowledge), Venice 1564]
An early example of music printing
Johannes de Sacrobosco and Regiomontanus, Sphaera Mundi ([Venice:] Erhard Ratdolt, 1485)
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Matteo Pagan, The True Description of the Great City of Cairo (Venice, 1549)
Pietro Durante, The book of battles and of love called Leandra... (Venice, 1522)
Apuleius in the vernacular
(Venice, 1518)
Very useful book for learning how to read quickly ... (Perugia, 1521)
Eustachio Celebrino,
This is the way
to cure the French disease
[syphilis]…(Venice, 1526)
Garden of very rare secrets, useful and pleasing…
(Bologna, C16th) – an example of a ‘book of secrets’
The News about Brescia, with a Song in Praise of the King of France and of Saint Mark. Newly Printed. (Venice, ca. 1516)
Vernacular Bible (Venice, 1538)
Veronica Franco Pietro Aretino
“swarms of new books”
“rubbish written by all and
sundry”
(Erasmus complaining about
the state of the printing
industry, 1527)
• 1559 first Roman
Index of Prohibited
Books
The Index of Prohibited Books, 1564
Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Florence, 1632)