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August '79
Dawson's - Los Angeles
$30
(Joannes)
Campanus, Johannes Antonius (1427-77)
Opera Giovanni Antonia
Rome: Eucherius Silber, for Michael Fernus editor
31 Oct. 1495. -folio (median)
Goff C73 HC 4286(7) BMC IV p117 GW 5939. Pell 3180
Cop HEHL; Carn. U. L. PML Liber Quintus
1st ed. Epistolarum
304 leaves. Epigrams in 2 columns, indeces in 2, 3 or 5 columns
21a : 54-56 lines + headlines, 236 (246) x 139 mm. Types
text; The headlines give the titles + book numbers.
to 2 woodcuts.
84R - medium text type - single + seperate Qu; + to
straight tail - in use perhaps in 1493 + certainly 1495-1500.

The earliest book that is recorded as printed by Silber
is the Cautelae iuris of Bartholomeaus Cupella,
dated 20 May 1480. He continued printing into the
16th C, being succeeded by his son Marcellus Silber.
(Parallel Lives)
The text of the Han Plutarch, ca. 1471 was edited by
[inserted] one of the most noted of the Italian numerists. [end inserted] Johannes A Campanus, a man learned not only in
religious literature (he was Bishop of Crotona + later
of Teesmo) but also in the classics. He took great
interest in the new craft of printing, + he is said to
have rendered Ulrich Han Valuable assistance by serving
as his "press conector."
Epistolaw; 129-2046
Lorenzo de Medici 1449-92 (il magnifico) Epistola Px. ix. libri
Guntile da Fabriano 1360-1427 - painter
(to 1370- to 1450)
Giovanni Antorio Campana - a native of Naples + one time
incident of Siena + Perugia. He is among the most important Latin
writers of the 15th C.