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Un letterato e mestierante del libro tra Austria e Sicilia: Juan Silvestre Salva

D Ciccarello

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Settore M-STO/08 - Archivistica Bibliografia E BiblioteconomiaEarly printed books Sicilian printing houses Archimedes Juan Silvestre Salva Book professions

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The dynamics of printed text production and circulation during the second half of 17th century are shown through an individual case study. Juan Silvestre Salva was a Spanish literate man active in Vienna (translator, occasional poet) before migrating to Sicily as a book professional (proof corrector, publisher and printer, and eventually librarian). His most important venture was perhaps the issue of some texts by Archimedes, that he managed to accomplish in Palermo, from the basis of a former edition that another printer had started in Messina, and then interrupted at the time of the city rebellion against the Spanish crown.

https://hdl.handle.net/10447/591019