Antonio Salamanca
Italian, c. 1500 - 1562
(not assigned)Rome, Italy, Europe
BiographySpanish book and print publisher, active in Italy. Salamanca was in Rome by 1519 when he published Amadis de Gaula. Subsequently he published Ordo perpetuus divini officii secundu[m] Romana[m] Curia[m] (1520; printed by Antonio Blado), Esplandian (1525), La Celestina (c. 1525; with Jacopo Giunta), Antonio de Guevara’s Libro aureo de Marco Aurelio (1531), a Quignon Breviary (1535; with Giunta and Blado), Hernando da Salazar’s Las yglesias & indulgentias de Roma (1539), Las obras de Boscan (1547), a writing manual (1548; printed by the Dorico brothers) and Juan de Valverde’s Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano (1556; with Antoine Lafréry). In 1538 he began also to publish prints. His address, often abbreviated (Ant. Sal. exc.), appears on the second or later state of over 250 prints. Of this number, at least 150 are by Marcantonio Raimondi and his school. Another 60 or so are by the Master of the Die, Nicolaus Beatrizet (who engraved Salamanca’s portrait), Enea Vico, Giulio di Antonio Bonasone and others. The majority are reproductive engravings, but there are also numerous prints of antique sculpture and architecture, and several maps. His name appears in a census taken in Rome just before 1527, and he is listed as a member of the Virtuosi del Pantheon on 9 May 1546. On 20 December 1553 he went into partnership with the French publisher Antoine Lafréry. The partnership was dissolved in September 1563, a year after Salamanca’s death, by his son and heir Francesco Salamanca. A number of Salamanca’s plates were acquired by Lafréry.Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe. "Salamanca, Antonio." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, http://www.oxfordartonline.com.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/subscriber/article/grove/art/T075264 (accessed April 12, 2012).
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