Bonino De' Bonini
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Bonino De' Bonini (Croatian: Dobrić Dobričević) was one of the pioneers of printing in Europe.
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He was born in 1454 on the small Adriatic Island of Lagosta in the Republic of Ragusa (now Croatia). He printed in Venice, Verona, Brescia and Lyon. His printed works included those of the ancient classics Tibullis, Catullus, Propertius, Virgil, Plutarch and Aesop as well as Dante's Divine Comedy. His works were considered among the best examples of printing in his epoch. His bilingual (Latin - Italian) editions of "Aesopus moralisatus, Dante's "Cantica" and "Commedia del Divino" were printed first in Brescia in 1487, and then also in Lyon, France. We know of about 50 of his editions, the greatest number belonging to the period of 1483-1491 that he spent in Brescia - about 40. Croatia is in possession of 19 of his editions in 30 copies. The greatest number of his editions is in possession of the British Museum, London. He died in Treviso in 1528.
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