Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler was a printer in Milan from 1477 to 1526. He published more than 200 books.[1]
Biography
Scinzenzeler began his career under the apprenticeship of his father, Ulrich Scinzenzeler. Giovanni has been described as "the most prolific of the Milanese printers in the early 1500s".[2]
His printer's mark was an angel within a rectangle, holding a disc. There are initials at the feet of the angel, and the words "IO IACOMO E FRAT DE LAGNANO" circumscribing a blazing sun, in the middle of which is a monogram, I.H.S., under a cross. This mark has also been attributed to one Zanotto from Castelliono.[3]
Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler printed four editions of The Imitation of Christ, in 1500, 1504, 1511 and 1519 (his father Giovanni had published one in 1489).[2]
References
Further reading
- (in Italian) Amaldo Ganda, Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler: il testamento e altri documenti inediti (Milano 1499-1503), in L'organizzazione del supere: Studi in onore di Alfredo Serrai, ed. Maria Teresa Biagetti, 2004