“Nessuno ardisca imprimere”? Filippo Pinzi tra coedizioni e intrecci di privilegi di stampa nella Venezia del primo Cinquecento

This article examines a specific case where privileges and co-published editions are interlinked. First, Battista Torti and Filippo Pinzi’s collaboration in printing some editions of Del Maino’s works is explored, with the discovery that in the case of one edition their partnership was not made explicit but can be inferred by analysing the edition in question. Second, a privilege requested by Pinzi in 1512 for editions of Del Maino, Virgil and the works of Luca da Penne is examined. Finally, the contribution analyses editions of Virgil printed with commentaries in Venice between 1499 and 1515. An incunabula edition of Virgil – hitherto of uncertain attribution – can now be attributed to Pinzi, as well as the similar edition sine notis of 1501. Hence it is possible to confirm the collaboration of Bartolomeo Zani, Pinzi and the Paganini family as regards the three editions of Virgil subscribed by Zani (1508, 1510, 1514), and Giorgio Arrivabene and Alessandro Paganini’s partnership as regards the editions printed in 1512 and 1515. In all these cases, we show that there was an agreement between the different printers, even when this partnership was not explicitly declared in the editions. Lastly, the analysis of Pinzi’s Luca da Penne edition demonstrates that the editio princeps printed in Paris was used as the model for the Venetian publication.