Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler was a

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from 1477 to 1526. He published more than 200

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Scinzenzeler began his career under the

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of his father, Ulrich Scinzenzeler. Giovanni has been described as "the most prolific of the Milanese printers in the early 1500s".Von Habsburg, Maximilian. ''Catholic and Protestant Translations of the Imitatio Christi, 1425-1650: From Late Medieval Classic to Early Modern Bestseller'' Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2011. p. 74. His

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was an

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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

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, I.H.S., under a

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. This mark has also been attributed to one Zanotto from Castelliono.Bellorini, Egidio ''Note sulle traduzioni italiane delle "Eroidi" d'Ovidio, anteriori al rinascimento'' E. Loescher, 1900. p. 84. 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).

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