Matteo Capcasa

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Matteo Capcasa
Frontispiece of Piero Crescentio, De agricultura, Matteo Capcasa, Venice 1495.jpg
Title page of a vernacular translation of the De agricultura of Piero Crescentio, printed by Capcasa in Venice in 1495
Born
Parma
Died1495
Venice
NationalityMilanese
Other names
  • Matteo Capodicasa
  • Matteo Cap di Casa
  • Matteo Codeca
  • Matteo Chodeca
  • Matteo Co de Cha
  • Mattheo da Parma
Occupationprinter, typographer

Matteo Capcasa was a printer and typographer from Parma, in Emilia in central Italy, which at that time was subject to the Duchy of Milan. He was active as a book printer and typographer in Venice from 1485, when he printed a Vocabularium utriusque iuris (usually attributed to ) and an anonymous Fior di virtù. His workshop was in  [it], where he worked with his brother Giovanni.[1]

In 1489 Capcasa began a collaboration with the Florentine publisher – and later also printer - Lucantonio Giunti, with three titles: the works of Ovid; an anonymous translation into the volgare of the Transito de sancto Hieronymo, partly by ; and a translation of the Imitatio Christi, authorship of which was at that time attributed to Jean Gerson.[2]

Capcasa then collaborated with on a number of illustrated works, including a finely-illustrated Divina Commedia of Dante on 3 March 1491, with the new text and commentary of Cristoforo Landino; this Capcasa re-printed on his own account in 1493.[3]:38 Later in 1491 Capcasa fell seriously ill. After his recovery, he again collaborated with Giunti, on a further four works including the Dialogo della divina Provvidenza of Catherine of Siena. He also printed a number of books on his own account, including a reprint of the Dante from 1491, another Fior di virtù, the Tragedies of Seneca and the Epigrammata of Giovanni Battista Cantalicio.[1]

In 1494 he printed two editions for the Florentine publisher : the De coelesti vita of , and the letters of Marsilio Ficino. In July 1495 he completed printing the Epistolae of Francesco Filelfo for the Milanese publisher . He died shortly thereafter.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Alfredo Cioni (1975). Capcasa, Matteo (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 18. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed January 2016.
  2. ^ Massimo Ceresa (2001) Giunti, Lucantonio, il Vecchio (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 57. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed January 2016.
  3. ^ Brian Richardson (1994). Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: The Editor and the Vernacular Text, 1470–1600. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521420327.
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