Filippo and Bernardo Giunti
The Florentine giglio, printer's mark of Lucantonio Giunti, from a missal printed in Venice in 1521
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The Giunti were a Florentine family of printers. The first Giunti press was established in Venice by Lucantonio Giunti, who began printing under his own name in 1489. The press of his brother Filippo Giunti (1450–1517) in Florence, active from 1497, was a leading printing firm in that city from the turn of the sixteenth century. Some thirty members of the family became printers or booksellers. A press was established in Lyon in 1520. By about 1550 there were Giunti bookshops or warehouses in Antwerp, Burgos, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Medina del Campo, Paris, Salamanca and Zaragoza, and agencies in numerous cities of the Italian peninsula, including Bologna, Brescia, Genoa, Livorno, Lucca, Naples, Piacenza, Pisa, Siena and Turin, as well as the islands of Sardinia and Sicily.
In Venice the Giunti press was the most active publisher and exporter of liturgical texts in Catholic Europe.
In Florence the Giunti sought an effective monopoly of music-printing. Prominent in the output of the press are bandi and laws promulgated by the Grand Dukes of Tuscany, for whom the Giunti operated virtually as an official press.
The classic bibliographic monograph, De Florentina luntarum typographia by Angelo Maria Bandini, details the output of the press at Florence by year from 1497 to 1550. Bandini was able to build upon a printed catalogue of 1604.
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