Printing Presses in Antequera in the Sixteenth Century

Abstract

During the 1550s and 1560s, the printing and publishing sectors underwent a deep transformation on the whole of the Iberian Peninsula. the Nebrija business in Granada relied far less on the printing press than on the monopolistic exploitation rights for printing and selling the works of Nebrija. Bibliographical, typographical and philological studies published over the last few decades have recorded some isolated evidence of book printing in Antequera during the first decades of the sixteenth century. Antequera was also attractive to Antonio de Nebrija for another reason: there he would find the necessary capital to support his printing press. The history of the printing press in Antequera in the final years of the sixteenth and early years of the seventeenth century was largely determined by the changes introduced to both the privilege and the text of the Artes or Gramatica . Keywords:Antequera; book trade; Granada; printing press; sixteenth century