MINUZIANO, ALESSANDRO - End of Cicero's Philippics
and the impression by M. (1498) - Copy in the VaticanLibrary.
Barberini (ms. Orient. 1). It was first used by the learned
G. Morini, Oratorian, to whom belongs the credit of the first
edition of the Samaritan Pentateuch.
Bibliography2 worksP. Gassendi, Viri illustris... Peyresc Vita, Paris 1641, pp. 327, 383 and passim: C. F. Achard, s. v. in Dictionnaire de la Provence, III, p
BIBL.: P. Gassendi, Viri illustris... Peyresc Vita, Paris
1641, pp. 327, 383 and passim: C. F. Achard, s. v. in *Dictionnaire
de la Provence*, III, p. 529 ff.; Ph. T. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I.
MINUZIANO, ALESSANDRO. - Humanist, editor and printer, b. in 1450, d. in 1522. In 1491 he went to Milan, where he immediately entered into relations with the printers the La Signerre brothers, Ulderico Scinzenzeler, the Brothers da Legnano and others, in order to publish classical, historical and literary works. He was one of the first Italian editors in the sense of choosing the texts, editing them and promoting their printing. The wording "ex officina Minutiana" in some editions of Latin classics suggests that he also had a printing house of his own.
Among his editions mention should be made of: the Opera omnia of Cicero (Milan, F.lli La Signerre, 1498-99, in 4 vols. and the first complete edition); the Historia... di Milano of Bernardino Corio (ibid., F.lli da Legnano, 1503), famous for its beautiful and large woodcuts; the Tacti quae extant... (ibid., "ex Officina Minutiana", 1517), an edition edited by Andrea Alciato and counterfeited from the previous Rome edition of 1515 edited by Filippo Beroaldo, which gave rise to a lawsuit in which M. acknowledged his own [works], was acquitted and authorized to print by a brief of Leo X.
Bibliography3 worksE. G. Vogel, Alexander Minutianus' Druche, in Serapeum, 13 (1852), no. 10, pp. 145-53, and no. 11, pp. 168-72; A. Guillon, Notice sur l'édit
BIBL.: E. G. Vogel, Alexander Minutianus' Druche, in Serapeum, 13 (1852), no. 10, pp. 145-53, and no. 11, pp. 168-72; A. Guillon, Notice sur l'édition princeps du recueil des oeuvres de Cicéron, et sur Alexandre Minutianus auteur de cette édition, in Bibliographie de la France, 1820, pp. 317-20, 331-36, 348-52 (this Notice gave occasion for a reply by Petit-Radel, ibid., pp. 406-408, and for observations by J. Ch. Brunet, ibid., pp. 569-70); G. Fumagalli, in Lexicon typographicum Italiae, Florence 1905, pp. 217-19.
Giannetto Avanti
Avanzi, Giannetto, and Gennaro Moretti. “Minuziano, alessandro.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, coll. 1063–1064. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/minuziano-alessandro.
MLA
Avanzi, Giannetto, and Gennaro Moretti. “Minuziano, alessandro.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, coll. 1063–1064. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/minuziano-alessandro.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec8_minuziano_alessandro,
author = {Avanzi, Giannetto and Moretti, Gennaro},
title = {Minuziano, alessandro},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
pages = {1063--1064},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/minuziano-alessandro}
}
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