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F. Ongania
Early Venetian
Printing Illustrated
Gunst Z156 V46 058f.

Venice - the 2nd city in Italy to receive the printing press
was during the 2nd half of the 15th C, the chief
+ most important emporium of typographical productions.
From 1469 (John of Speyer) in which printing was
introduced, up to the end of the century, more than
200 presses were at work in the city.
Venetian printers brought the paper for their books
chiefly from the paper mills of Padua + Treviso.

1) the balance - the most frequent Venetian watermark
2) the bull's head
3) hat / Liber Secundus, begins b7 (of 8), ends d' (of 8),
HEHL (104038) → no rubrication, large printed capital at beginning of each book (17 total)

3 wars were ultimately fought between Carthage + Rome,
the celebrated Punic wars which covered a span of 119 years
The wars began in 264 BC + by 146 BC it was over.
Carthage was destroyed + her territory became a Roman
province of Africa.

Silius Italicus' Punica tells the story of the 2nd Punic War in its
orderly sequence from Hannibal's oath to the battle of Zama.
His main source is obviously the 3rd decade of Livy, but the
absorbing + exciting account of the prose historian is made tedious
+ even ludicrous by the poet. The tediousness is due to endless
tautology + elaboration + the ludicrousness to the incongruity of
applying to familiar historical characters + events every device of
the heroic saga, including the physical intervention of gods.
-- B. Locatellus was printing for O. Scotus from 1489 to 1500
+ used as colophon the cross + circle deivce of the latter.

Type 105R - Text type. In use 1490-1496/7.
80R - Commentary + small text type. Single hyphen. In
use in 1490-1496/7. At first single Qu is universal; but
in the 1494/5 Boccaccio separate Q with short curled tail
appears side by side with the other + in later books
predominates.

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