Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. The Introduction of Printing in Florence
5. 1. Bernardo Cennini and His Family Enterprise, 1471–1472 15
6. 2. Giorgio di Niccolò Baldesi, Giovanni di Piero da Magonza, and Partners, 1470–1473 19
7. 3. Wool Trade and Printing 29
8. Part II. Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna’s First Years of Activity
9. 4. In the Service of the Mercanzia, 1464–1475 37
10. 5. The Collaboration with Giovanni di Piero da Magonza, and Marsilio Ficino’s De Christiana religione, ca. 1474–1476 43
11. 6. Cappone Capponi and His Circle, 1475–1480 47
12. 7. Printing for the Convent of Santo Spirito, ca. 1476–1477 50
13. 8. Institutional and Private Commissions, ca. 1476–1480 53
14. 9. The End of the Company, 1480–1482 66
15. Part III. At the Peak of Niccolò di Lorenzo’s Career
16. 1.0 A Work Proposal for the Ripoli Press, 11 November 1480 71
17. 11. Cristoforo Landino’s Commented Edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy (1481) 75
18. 12. From Cristoforo Landino’s Disputationes camaldulenses (1480?) to Francesco Berlinghieri’s Geographia (1481–1482) 83
19. 13. From Niccolò Perotti’s Rudimenta grammatices (1483) to Saint Gregory’s Morali (1483–1486) 88
20. 14. Baptista Siculus and Leon Battista Alberti’s De re aedificatoria (1485) 96
21. Epilogue 101
22. Abbreviations 113
23. Appendix A. Books Printed by Niccolò Di Lorenzo Della Magna or Attributed to his Press 115
24. Appendix B. Documents 119
25. Notes 133
26. Bibliography 179
27. Index 201