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Perna printer's device & motto: Verbum tuum lucerna pedibus meis Ps.119:105. "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet" 1558Perna's printer device
Pietro Perna (1519 – 16 August 1582) was an Italian printer, the leading printer of Late Renaissance Basel, the Erasmian crossroads between Italian Renaissance humanism and the Protestant Reformation. His books promoted the Italian heretical thinkers at the origins of Socinianism and the theory of Tolerance. He was a major publisher of Protestant historians like Flacius Illyricus and David Chytraeus and promoted the ars historica treatises of the period, notably the 18 authores de historia in Artis Historicae Penus (1579).
A native of Villa Basilica, in the Republic of Lucca, and a Dominican,[1] he arrived in Basel in 1544 as a disciple of the reformer Pietro Martire Vermigli and with the help of Pietro Carnesecchi.[2] As a printer he started as an assistant to the renowned Johannes Oporinus and set up a press of his own in 1558. As a bookseller and apprentice printer he established a network of Italian connections that helped him act as a go between and publisher of Italian reformed thinkers and writers, such as Vermigli, Pier Paolo Vergerio, Jacopo Aconcio, Bernardino Ochino, Lelio Sozzini, Sebastian Castellio, Celio Secondo Curione, etc. He published the first edition (editio princeps) of the original Greek text of the Enneads of Plotinus. He produced important editions of Machiavelli and Bodin, Guicciardini and Lodovico Castelvetro. He published works of Paracelsus and various Paracelsians but also served as the chief printer of Paracelsus's leading critic Thomas Erastus. In 1570 Perna sent the artist Tobias Stimmer to Como to copy the famous collection of historical portraits in the Giovio Collection.[3] Stimmer's distinctive woodcuts decorate numerous editions of Paolo Giovio, brought out by Perna and Heinrich Petri. The Basel doctor and polymath Theodor Zwinger was his close collaborator. Perna died of the plague and was buried in St. Peter's Church.
Ad Perneam Lecytum (At Perna's oil lamp) 1580
^Cavarzere, Marco (2015). "PERNA, Pietro". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 82: Pazzi–Pia (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
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was a Latin translation by Silvestro Tegli and published at Basel by PietroPerna, both Italian Protestants in exile and followers of Caelius Secundus...
La vita e i tempi di PietroPerna, Rome, Edizioni di storia, provides a numbered catalogue of the 430 editions printed by Perna between 1549 and 1582...
Boni Lombardi Ferrariensis physici. Edited by Michael Toxites. Basel: PietroPerna, 1572. In Theatrum Chemicum. 1622. In Bibliotheca chemica curiosa. 1702...
and will inspire Reginald Scot's refutation of magic. Also in Basel, PietroPerna prints Bernardino Ochino's Dialogi XXX (Thirty Dialogues) criticizing...
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, was pope from 1939 to 1958. PietroPerna (1519–1582), was one of the most important printers of Basel. John Gualbert...
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historica works brought out in 1579 by the late Renaissance Basel printer PietroPerna. This compendium in octavo appeared in 2 volumes with a copious index...
source for this work was the Artis Historicae Penus of the Basel printer PietroPerna. Obscuring the uses he was to make of this heterodox source, the Jesuit...
Chemicae Artem, integra magistri Boni Lombardi Ferrariensis physici. Basel: PietroPerna, 1572. An edition of the Pretiosa margarita novella of Petrus Bonus....
relative, Heinrich Petri of Basel who published it in cooperation with PietroPerna and Guglielmo Gratarolo in 1561. By this time the collection had accrued...
Francesco Guicciardini, dedicated to Charles IX of France and printed by PietroPerna in 1566, which placed an essential work of Italian historiography at...
of the late Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter at its core. Italian exile PietroPerna sets up his printing press in Basel, Switzerland. John Dee – Propaedeumata...
artisque metallicae, citra aenigmata, doctrina. Basel: Heinrich Petri et PietroPerna, 1561. Pestis descriptio, causa signa omnigena et praeservatio. Paris:...
mentioning his name stems from 1611. Colloquium Iesuiticum printed by PietroPerna, Basel 1581 Analysis rixae christianae, quae imperium turbat, et diminuit...
Pietro Pitati (in Latin, Petrus Pitatus) (?-fl. ca. 1550) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician. Bernardino Baldi, in his Cronica de matematici (1707)...
is also the inspiration behind a character named Manu (played by Denise Perna) in the television series of the same name, who appears in the ninth episode...
village of Bonifacio in Corsica, and in the villages of Carloforte on San Pietro Island and Calasetta on Sant'Antioco Island off the coast of southwestern...
(CLN), in particular the Italian Socialist Party. Led by Luigi Longo and Pietro Secchia, they were the largest of the partisan groups and suffered the highest...
Sicilian nobleman, the son of Blasco Natoli Lanza and Domenica Giambruno Perna. He was baron of S. Bartolomeo and Belice. On 20 August 1597 he bought the...
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