Also known as:
German: Wendelin von Speyer;
Latin: Johannes de Spira, Wendelinus de Spira
SPEYER, Giovanni e Windelino da (Johann und Windelin von Speyer). - Name of two German brothers, printers, who emigrated to Venice and worked there from 1469 to 1477.
GIOVANNI was the prototypographer of Venice with the two editions of Cicero's Epistolae familiares and Pliny's Naturalis historia, printed in 1469, for which he obtained a privilege lasting 5 years. He also began the printing of St. Augustine's De civitate Dei, which he left unfinished because of his death, which occurred toward the end of the same year.
He was succeeded by his brother VINDELINO who, in 1470, completed the aforementioned edition, beginning a printing activity that lasted until 1477. He printed numerous works, among which are the first editions of certain Latin classics: Tacitus, Sallust, Priscian (1470), Plautus, Tibullus (1472); those of Petrarch's Rime (1470), Boccaccio's Genealogia deorum (1472), the very well-known vernacular Bible of Niccolò Mallermi in 2 vols. (1471) and a valuable edition of Dante's Commedia with the commentary formerly attributed to Benvenuto da Imola, of which the author is instead Jacopo della Lana. Documents prove that, after 1473, V. was associated with Giovanni da Colonia.
Bibliography4 worksG. Castellani, La stampa in Venezia, Venice 1889; G. Ludwig, Contratti fra lo stampador Zwan di Colonia e i suoi socii, ibid. 1902; Prince d
BIBL.: G. Castellani, La stampa in Venezia, Venice 1889; G. Ludwig, Contratti fra lo stampador Zwan di Colonia e i suoi socii, ibid. 1902; Prince d'Essling, Les premiers ornements xylographiques dans les livres de Venise, in La Bibliofilia, 8 (1906-1907), pp. 121-29; K. Haebler, Die deutschen Buchdrucker des XV. Jahrh. im Auslande, Munich 1924, pp. 24-39.
Avanzi, Giannetto. “Spira, giovanni e vindelino da (johann und windelin von speyer).” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, col. 1135. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/spira-giovanni-e-vindelino-da-johann-und-windelin-von-speyer.
MLA
Avanzi, Giannetto. “Spira, giovanni e vindelino da (johann und windelin von speyer).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 1135. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/spira-giovanni-e-vindelino-da-johann-und-windelin-von-speyer.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec11_spira_giovanni_e_vindelino_da,
author = {Avanzi, Giannetto},
title = {Spira, giovanni e vindelino da (johann und windelin von speyer)},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XI},
pages = {1135},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/spira-giovanni-e-vindelino-da-johann-und-windelin-von-speyer}
}
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