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(Turin), and is a reprint <strong>of</strong> Lefèvre d’Étaples’ edition (complete with his preface), but<br />
<strong>the</strong>re is little inform<strong>at</strong>ion on Tacuinus himself, o<strong>the</strong>r than a note th<strong>at</strong> he printed mainly<br />
classical works (Homer, Ovid, Vergil) and flourished between 1492 and 1536. 545<br />
Dionysius, in <strong>the</strong> context <strong>of</strong> his printing program, would have likely been classed<br />
amongst <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> classical Greek and Roman authors. The works he printed might well<br />
have reached Saxony, as several <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m are found in <strong>the</strong> Wittenberg library c<strong>at</strong>alogue <strong>of</strong><br />
1536. 546 Moreover, Wittenberg librarians were active in seeking out books not readily<br />
available, travelling, for instance, to Venice to purchase Greek and Hebrew<br />
manuscripts. 547<br />
The second Italian Dionysius edition d<strong>at</strong>es from 1546 (reprinted in 1556), from<br />
<strong>the</strong> presses whose colophon reads Ad signum Spei—<strong>the</strong> editors who printed <strong>at</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sign <strong>of</strong><br />
Hope were Antonio Brucioli (1487-1566) and Giovanni Centani. 548 Brucioli <strong>at</strong> least had<br />
good reason to conceal his identity as a printer, following his 1532 transl<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
Bible into Italian (l<strong>at</strong>er placed on <strong>the</strong> Index in 1559). Born in Florence and initially<br />
associ<strong>at</strong>ed with Florence’s distinguished humanists, Brucioli was exiled from Florence,<br />
taking refuge first in Venice (1522) and <strong>the</strong>n in Lyon (1523). 549 Both Lyon and Venice<br />
were cities in which Protestantism flourished outside Germany, 550 and while in exile<br />
http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t172.e1468 (accessed June<br />
20, 2012).<br />
545 Dionysius Areopagita, Operum Be<strong>at</strong>issimi Dionysii & Undecim Epistolarum diuini Ign<strong>at</strong>ii Antiochensis<br />
ecclesiae Episcopi & unius be<strong>at</strong>i Polycarpi Smyrneorum antistitis, discipulorum sanctorum Apostolorum &<br />
martyrum Iesu salu<strong>at</strong>oris mundi foelicissimorum, (Venice: Joannes Tacuinum de Tridino, 1502).<br />
546 Kusukawa, 254.<br />
547 Ibid, xvii-xviii.<br />
548 Brian Richardson, Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge: Cambridge<br />
University Press, 1999), 32. The New Testament alone was printed in 1530, <strong>the</strong> Old and New toge<strong>the</strong>r in<br />
1532.<br />
549 Anthony M. Cummings, "Musical References in Brucioli's Dialogi and Their Classical and Medieval<br />
Antecedents," Journal <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> History <strong>of</strong> Ideas, April 2010: 169-170.<br />
550 Lu<strong>the</strong>r’s books made <strong>the</strong>ir way to Venice early on (note 163, above), and Lyon was one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> hubs for<br />
French Protestants. Philip T. H<strong>of</strong>fman, "Lyon," The Oxford Encyclopedia <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Reform<strong>at</strong>ion, ed. Hans J.<br />
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