HAN, ULDERICO. - German printer, a native of Ingolstadt, d. in Rome before 1480. His activity took place in Rome from 1467 to 1471, then from that year to 1474 in association with Simone Cardella, and then again on his own between the years 1475-78; more than 60 editions are attributed to him.

Among them is the little book Méditations by Cardinal Giovanni da Torquemada (Turrecremata), dated 31 Dec. 1467, the first book with illustrations printed in Italy and of which only 4 copies are known in public libraries in Manchester, Madrid, Vienna and Nuremberg. He also signed his editions with the Latinized surname Gallus and with the appellation Barbatus.

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BIBL.: K. Haebler, Die deutschen Buchdrucker des XV. Jahrhunderts im Auslande, Munich 1924, pp. 18-22; L. De Gregori, La stampa a Roma nel sec. XV, Rome 1933, pp. 13-14, 43-49. For the Meditationes: L. Donati, Meditationes Johannis de Turrecremata, Divagazione prima, in Maso Finiguerra, 4 (1939), pp. 3-68; L. De Gregori, Il chiastro della Minerva e le 'Meditationes' del card. Turrecremata, Rome 1940; L. Donati, Divagazione seconda, in Studi di bibliografia e di argomento romano in memoria di Luigi De Gregori, ibid. 1949, pp. 99-128; G. Avanzi, L'illustrazione libraria con particolare riguardo al libro italiano, ibid. 1950, pp. 13-14 and 34.

Giannetto Avanzi

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