I Lorio: editori, librai, cartai, tipografi fra Udine e Venezia (1496-1629). By LORENZO DI LENARDO.

Abstract

This reviewer can take some satisfaction from the knowledge that in 1987 he published a very short article in La Bibliofilia on Lorenzo Lorio, having decided that two editions of Giorgio Valla printed in Venice in 1514 by Simon de Luere for the publisher 'Laurentius Orius de Portesio' must refer to Lorenzo Lorio, and that therefore the British Museum's Italian Short Title Catalogue of 1958 was mistaken in indexing 'Lorio, Lorenzo' and 'Orius, Laurentius' as two separate persons. In that article I listed sixteen editions known to me as published (not printed) by Lorenzo Lorio at Venice between 1514 and 1527. Of these, five were texts by Erasmus and four by Friedrich Nausea, the future Bishop of Vienna. In subsequent years I located two more editions of Erasmus in Italy; the British Library bought a 1523 edition of St Dorotheus, Archimandrite of Gaza; and I traced a 1522 edition of Aphthonius, Progymnasmata, and Angela da Foligno, Libellus spiritualis doctrine, of 14 October 1521. Thus by about the year 2000 I knew of twenty-one editions published by Lorenzo Lorio, and I had already emphasized in my article his importance as the leading publisher to introduce the works of Erasmus to an Italian audience.