Andrija Paltašić

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Andrija Paltašić (Italian: Andreas de Paltasichis) (1450, Kotor, Albania Veneta – c.1500, Venice) was an Italian printer and publisher from the Gulf of Kotor in Montenegro. He plied his trade in Venice from 1477 to 1493.

Paltašić is known to have printed the famous Greek and Roman works (by Cicero, Diodorus Siculus, Virgil, Terence, Ovid, Sextus Propertius, Juvenal, Tibullus, Catullus and others) as well as the works of humanist writers, historiographers and lexicographers. On top of this he also printed books concerning religion, such as the Bible in Italian.

Paltašić's works currently remain all over Europe. In southeastern Europe, the region from which he originally came, there remains 41 of his works. The majority of these are kept in Croatia, while there are three in Montenegro.