Persons known by name
Marcolini, Francesco
Marcolini, Francesco
- born ca. 1500 in Forlì – 1559 in Venice
- since ca. 1534: Venetian book printer and publisher
- lived from 1545–1548 on the island of Cyprus
- printed:
- printed also music:
- Adrian Willaert's Liber quinque missarum (1536)
- Francesco da Milano's Intabolatura di liuto de diversi, con la Bataglia, et altre cose bellissime di m. Francesco da Milano
- may also have worked as an architect and engineer: Doni mentions in his Libraria that there were two unpublished works by Marcolini: a Trattato di fare varie sorti di horologi (Treatise on how to make different sorts of clocks) and a book about "tutti gli ingegneri antichi e moderni"! (= i.e. something similar to Vasari's Vite?)
- Marcolini's competence in architectural theory is also mentioned by Barbaro who said that he consulted Marcolini many times during his work on his commentary on Vitruvius.
- In 1545 Marcolini built the wooden bridge "ponte lungo" over the largest canal in Murano, which was praised by F. Sansovino Andrea Calmo.
- entry in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
