Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler

Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler was a printer in Milan from 1477 to 1526. He published more than 200 books.[1]

Biography

Scinzenzeler began his career under the apprenticeship of his father, Ulrich Scinzenzeler. Giovanni has been described as "the most prolific of the Milanese printers in the early 1500s".[2]

His printer's mark was an angel within a rectangle, holding a disc. There are initials at the feet of the angel, and the words "IO IACOMO E FRAT DE LAGNANO" circumscribing a blazing sun, in the middle of which is a monogram, I.H.S., under a cross. This mark has also been attributed to one Zanotto from Castelliono.[3]

Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler printed four editions of The Imitation of Christ, in 1500, 1504, 1511 and 1519 (his father Giovanni had published one in 1489).[2]

References
  1. Balsamo, Jean. Poetes Italiens de La Renaissance Dans La Bibliotheque de La Fondation Barbier-Mueller. de Dante a Chiabrera Librairie Droz, 2007, p. 179.
  2. Von Habsburg, Maximilian. Catholic and Protestant Translations of the Imitatio Christi, 1425-1650: From Late Medieval Classic to Early Modern Bestseller Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2011. p. 74.
  3. Bellorini, Egidio Note sulle traduzioni italiane delle "Eroidi" d'Ovidio, anteriori al rinascimento E. Loescher, 1900. p. 84.

Further reading
  • (in Italian) Amaldo Ganda, Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler: il testamento e altri documenti inediti (Milano 1499-1503), in L'organizzazione del supere: Studi in onore di Alfredo Serrai, ed. Maria Teresa Biagetti, 2004
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