Giovanni Antonio Volpi
Giovanni Antonio Volpi (1686–1766) was an Italian editor, publisher and poet. • Illustration — Scholae duae, 1728 He was born in Padua. In 1717, along with his brother Gaetano and the engraver Giuseppe Comino, they founded a publishing house and book shop under the name of Libreria Cominiana or Volpi-Comminiana. The print specialized in high quality classics.
Giovanni Antonio Volpi
Benedetto Musitelli · Galeria dei letterati ed artisti delle provincie veneziane, 1824 · Public domain
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- 1686. · Padua.
- Died
- 1766. · Padua.
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice.
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- literary critic, publisher and poet.
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- Italian.
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Giovanni Antonio Volpi (1686–1766) was an Italian editor, publisher and poet. • Illustration — Scholae duae, 1728 He was born in Padua. In 1717, along with his brother Gaetano and the engraver Giuseppe Comino, they founded a publishing house and book shop under the name of Libreria Cominiana or Volpi-Comminiana. The print specialized in high quality classics.
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Volpi studied philosophy and rhetoric and became a professor emeritus at the University of Padua.
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- 1.Giuseppe Comino, né à Cittadella dans les environs de Padoue, consacra presque toute sa vie à l’entreprise des Volpi, et mourut vers 1762. Son fils Angelo Comino a continué d’exploiter le fonds de librairie créé par cette association.
- 2.Voyez sur ce recueil le Giornale de’ letter. d’It., tom. XXXVI, p. 474, et le Suppl. act. erud. Lips., sect. 9, tome IX, pag. 365.
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