Giovanni Battista Castrodardo
DBId: 2346
Entry author: Marina Santana
Node type: Person
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Name
Giovanni Battista Castrodardo
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Activity place
Venice, Padua
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Activity start date
1543
Activity end date
1547
Place of birth
Date of birth
1517
Place of death
Date of death
1588
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He is a canon of Belluno Cathedral from 1534 to 1584 and an overlooked figure in the history of Italian printing and the Renaissance. He was active in Padua and Venice between 1543 and 1547 and authored at least four works. His first was a 1544 Italian translation of Niccolò Leonico Tomeo's De varia historia, printed by Michele Tramezino.
Entry author
Marina Santana