Persons known by name
Blado, Antonio
- 1490–1567
- Biography in Dizionario Biographico degli Italiani
- printer, in Rome active, among others for the Accademia della Virtù / Accademia Romana
- In 1539 Marcello Cervini commissioned Blado in addition to his activities for the Accademia, to print the Greek manuscripts of the Vatican Library: [Layton 1994: 29–30]. Because Blado had no Greek type face letters, he went to Venice to consult Paolo Manuzio, following Cervini's advice. Among the works published in this cooperation are those of St. Gregor from Nazianz, which may establish an additional connection to Gregor XIII and the Cappella Gregoriana, one of the first re-creations of ancient Roman decoration.
- According to his biography in the DBI, Blado co-operated, among others, with Annibale Caro, Antonio Salamanca, Benedetto Giunta (printer in Venice), Michele Tramezzino, Paolo Manuzio, Achille Stazio, the Dorico brothers (New Testament in Ethiopic; 1548-1549)
- [Long 2008: 1113]: "The papal printer Antonio Blado (1515–1567), who had kept the woodblocks of the [Bufalini's] map, was a close associate of Trevisi’s patron Giovanni Onorio (1535–1563), the reader of Greek in the Vatican Library."
- He also worked for Giovanni Gaddi.
- Works he published for members of the Accademia:
- Philandrier: Annotationes (1544)
- Marliano, Barbarasa: L'antichità di Roma (1548)
- Palatino's book on the letters (1550 etc.)
- Bufalini's map of Rome (1551)
- Egio: Bibliothéké of (Pseudo-) Apollodorus (1555)
- according to the DBI article, Labacco's Libro was printed by Blado (maybe later editions?)
- printed Annibal Caro's commentary to a comedical praise of "figs" by Molza in August 1539. (according to [Simons / Kornell 2008: 1077]
