Posts Tagged ‘Conrad Sweyheim’

June 12

The earliest press to be established in Italy completed on June 12, 1465 its fourth book, De Civitate Dei of St. Augustine. The press then removed to Rome from its first location, the three Benedictine monasteries at Subiaco which make up the Abbey of Santa Scolastica. In 1454 the reigning Pope, Calixtus in, had appointed […]