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Matteo Capcasa
Matteo Capcasa was a printer and typographer from Parma, in Emilia (region of Italy), Emilia in central Italy, which at that time was subject to the Duchy of Milan. He was active as a book printer and typographer in Venice from 1485, when he printed a ''Vocabularium utriusque iuris'' (usually attributed to Jodocus of Erfurt) and an anonymous ''Fior di virtù''. His workshop was in , where he worked with his brother Giovanni. In 1489 Capcasa began a collaboration with the Republic of Florence, Florentine publisher – and later also printer - Lucantonio Giunti, with three titles: the works of Ovid; an anonymous translation into the ''vernacular, volgare'' of the ''Transito de sancto Hieronymo'', partly by Eusebius Cremonensis; and a translation of the ''The Imitation of Christ, Imitatio Christi'', authorship of which was at that time attributed to Jean Gerson. Capcasa then collaborated with Bernardino Benagli on a number of illustrated works, including a finely-illustrated ''Div ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Title Page
The title page of a book, thesis or other written work is the page at or near the front which displays its title (publishing), title, subtitle, author, publisher, and edition, often artistically decorated. (A half title, by contrast, displays only the title of a work.) The title page is one of the most important parts of the "front matter" or "preliminaries" of a book, as the data on it and its verso (together known as the "title leaf") are used to establish the "title proper and usually, though not necessarily, the statement of responsibility and the data relating to publication". This determines the way the book is cited in library catalogs and academic references. The title page often shows the title of the work, the person or body responsible for its intellectual content, and the imprint, which contains the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication. Particularly in paperback editions it may contain a shorter title than the cover or lack a descriptiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |