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Bartolomeo Faleti

Also known as: Bartolomeo Faleti; primary name: Faleti, Bartolomeo; other name: Faletti, Bartolomeo
Details: individual; publisher/printer; dealer/auction house; Italian; Male
Life dates: 1560 fl.-1570 died
Biography: Bookseller, printer and print dealer. Active in Rome. His shop was at S. Agostino. He had considerable interests in Venice (Borroni Salvadori). Privilege for a Missal in which he was associated with Giovanni Varisco and which was published after Faleti's death in 1570. His heirs printed books in Venice and Rome in 1570 and 1571; all these volumes have the names of Giovanni Varisco and the heirs of B. Faleti. His address appears on prints by Cavalieri, Sebastiano di Re and Dupérac, as well as on many maps.
Bibliography: M. Bury, ‘The Print in Italy 1550-1625’, British Museum, London 2001, p.226 H.Egger, Maso Finiguerra I 1936 pp.59-64 on print of Papal blessing of 1567 C.L.E.Whitcombe, 'Print Publishing in sixteenth-century Rome', Turnhout, 2008, pp.225-8

Title: Areae et Palatii Pontificii Vaticani topographia Pontificisque populum solemni ritu benedicentis ima |
Museum number: 1875,0508.51 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Etienne DupéracPublished by:Bartolomeo Faleti |
Production date: 1567

Museum number: 1869,0410.2142 |
Producer name: Print made by:Nicolas BeatrizetAfter:Giuseppe Porta called Salviati |
Production date: 1540-1566

Title: Porticus et Palatii Capitolini aspectus accurate c Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae |
Museum number: 1871,0812.797 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousPublished by:Bartolomeo Faleti |
Production date: 1568 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)