Giovanni Battista Pasquali

Giovanni Battista Pasquali was a leading printer in 18th-century Venice, supported by the British consul Joseph Smith (1682–1770), a patron and collector.[1] Pasquali was a scholar himself, who published his own essays as well as finely printed, unpretentious editions for a scholarly readership.[2] 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 Antonio Zatta.

  • Giambattista Pasquali's marks
Pasquali's mark (BEIC)

Notes
  1. Frances Vivian, Il Console Smith, mercante e collezionista, passim
  2. Anne Palms Chalmers, "Venetian Book Design in the Eighteenth Century" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 29.5 (January 1971:226-235) p. 227.

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  • Minuzzi, Sabrina (2014). "PASQUALI, Giambattista". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 81: Pansini–Pazienza (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
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