Typographorum Emblemata

Konstantinos Sp. Staikos

Heraldic and Symbolic Printer’s Devices of Greek Printers in Italy (Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries)

From the early fourteenth century the Byzantine empire underwent a steady decline and its territories dwindled, until the final act of the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453. This brought about changes in the European order of affairs; in addition, printing did not become widespread in the territories of the Ottoman Empire until much later; only some texts in Hebrew and Armenian were printed in Constantinople and other cities after 1499 and books started to be printed in Greek only in the early seventeenth century.

Early Printing in Greek

Greek texts were printed in Italy as early as the late 1460s, more ...