Giovanni Battista Pasquali was a leading

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in 18th-century

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, supported by the British consul

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, a patron and collector. Pasquali was a scholar himself, who published his own essays as well as finely printed, unpretentious editions for a scholarly readership.Anne Palms Chalmers, "Venetian Book Design in the Eighteenth Century" ''The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin'', 29.5 (January 1971:226-235) p. 227. He signed the Latin preface to his printed catalogue of Smith's distinguished library, ''Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu Catalogus librorum d. Josephi Smithii'' (Venice: Pasquali, 1755). Pasquali's peers in the revival of fine printing among the presses of Venice were the editor and connoisseur Giovanni Battista Albrizzi and the political writer and publisher

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