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 MATTEO PAGANO, 1515-1588
MATHEO PAGANO (Matthaeus
Paganus or Matio Pagan) was, for his time, an important publisher in Venice, but little is
known about him. He was active as a wood engraver as well as a publisher, and both in his
engravings and books his establishment is stated to have been situated in Frezaria al
Segno della Fede. On all his maps we can find a vignette with the word Fede and
a sign, sometimes clasped hands, sometimes an anchor with the letter S and
sometimes an angel with a cross.
His dated works go
back to 1538 and end in 1562, when he published, to accompany Gastaldi's map of the world,
the text "La Universale descrittione del Mondo, descritta da Giacomo de' Gastaldi
Piamontese. Con gratia et privilegio In Venetia, per Matthio Pagano in Frezzaria al segno
della Fede. M.D. LXII."
A new edition of the
text, published in 1565, bears a vignette similar to Pagano's but was issued by another
publisher who had taken over his establishment, "in Venetia, per Francesco de Tomaso
di Sal6 e compagni, in Frezzaria al segno della Fede. M.D. LXV."1
Referances
The
text of 1562 is in the Bihuotheque Nationale in Paris. A Latin text of the same year is in
the Universita'ts Bibliothek in Breslau. An Italian text of 1565 is in the British Museum.
G. Caraci (Riv. Geogr. Ital., 1936, t.43, p.226) mentions the Italian text 1561. A Latin
edition of 1568 "per Matthaeum Paganum," mentioned by Chr. Sandier (Zeitr. Ges.
f. Erdk., Berlin, 1894, t29, pp.404-405) could not he traced.
Bagrow:
A. Ortehi Catal. Cartogr., t.2, p.92.
M.
Pasini published in 1540, jointly with Fr. Bindoni, P. Coppo's Istria with a map. Coppo's
previous work had been published in 1525 by Aug. Bindoni alone. The firm of Fr. Bindoni
and Pasini was active between 1518 and 1551.
Bagrow:
Giovanni Andreas di vavassore, A Descriptive List of his Maps, Jenkintown, 1939.
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