Jerolim Zagurović
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Psalter with book of hours, published by Zagurović in 1569
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| Born | 1550 Kotor, Venetian Republic (today Montenegro) |
| Died | 1580 |
| Nationality | Venetian |
| Other names | Girolamo Zagurovich |
| Occupation | printer |
| Known for | last printer of srbulje books |
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| Spouse(s) | Antonija Crnojević |
| Children | Anđelo Zagurović |
Jerolim Zagurović (Serbian: Јеролим Загуровић), (Italian: Girolamo Zagurovich) (c. 1550—1580) was a Venetian printer of Serbian Cyrillic books (srbulje). Zagurović and Vićenco Vuković were the last printers of srbulje books.
Zagurović was Catholic and member of the noble Zagurović family from Kotor, Republic of Venice (today Montenegro). His paternal uncle was distinguished poet Ilija Zagurović.
The Zagurović family was related to the Serbian Crnojević family through the marriage of Jerolim Zagurović and Antonija Crnojević, the daughter of Lord Đurađ Crnojević of Zeta (r. 1489–96). They had a son, Anđelo, who lived in Venice.
The Crnojević printing house was disestablihed when Đurađ Crnojević fled Zeta in 1496. The types used in his printing house remained in the monastery until Jerolim Zagurović found them somewhere before 1569. He wrote that he took some types to Venice. Because Jerolim insisted he brought types from Crnojević printing house to Venice, it was speculated that he had actually used Crnojević's types in his printing house. This was disputed by some later works which explained that the Crnojević printing house was so well reputated that other printing houses imitated its types.
In 1569 he founded a printing house in Venice and began printing Cyrillic books. One of the motives of Jerolim Zagurović to establish the printing house was to earn some profit from it to compensate losses of the Zagurović family business caused by frequent Ottoman sieges of Kotor. Zagurović did not have a formal theological education so he had to engage Jakov of Kamena Reka to edit and proofread the texts before printing. (Jakov belonged to the Serbian Orthodox Church).
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