Piero Pacini da Pescia
Piero Pacini da Pescia (flourished 1495-1514) was an Italian publisher.[1] He lived and worked in Florence, Italy. Pacini made operettes. His publishing house was known for publishing quality woodcuts in their books. After his death, his son, Bernardo, continued the business.[2] Works by Pacini are held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Library of Congress.[1][3]
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Pacini's mark (BEIC)
His printer's mark can be found as a decoration on the Albert Kahn designed Muskegon Chronicle building in Muskegon, Michigan, USA. It was sculpted by Corrado Parducci.[4]
Notable works
- Epistole et Euangelii et Lectioni vulgari in lingua toschana, 1495[1]
- Aesop's Fables, 1496[2]
- Triumphs of Petrarch, 1499[2]
- The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, 1505[2]
gollark: I was looking into doing something vaguely like this in userspace for broadly insane reasons, but coroutines can't be serialized apparently.
gollark: Oh neat, OCish persistence eventually™?
gollark: ↓ quite bland
gollark: That reminds me, I should liven up the potatOS site.
gollark: I was talking to skycrafter.
References
- "Epistles, Gospels, and Popular Readings in the Tuscan Language". World Digital Library. June 27, 1495. Retrieved 2013-09-04.
- "Pacini, Pietro". Enciclopedia. Treccani. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- "Florentine School of European Renaissance Art". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- Shadowing Parducci, unpublished manuscript by Einar E. Kvaran
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