This is the frontispiece of an illegal book of harpsichord music, published in 1517 without privilege. The author, Andrea Antico is poking fun of his competitor Petrucci (shown as the monkey holding the lute) who held the monopoly and the privilege of the Republic in printing music. - ThreadSky

helendecruz.net • 428 days ago

This is the frontispiece of an illegal book of harpsichord music, published in 1517 without privilege. The author, Andrea Antico is poking fun of his competitor Petrucci (shown as the monkey holding the lute) who held the monopoly and the privilege of the Republic in printing music.

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freereed59.net•428 days ago

I have questions! Illegal book? Illegal harpsichord? Illegal music? Illegal monkey?

helendecruz.net•428 days ago

Printing a book without the privilege of a duke, or monarch, or stadholder or whoever was in charge was illegal. Petrucci managed to get the monopoly for printing music in Venice in the 1510s so if you wanted to do it anyway, you would do it illegally.

lfillingham.bsky.social•428 days ago

So Andrea the author is a woman?

helendecruz.net•428 days ago

No it's confusing but in Italy Andrea is a masculine name cf -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Antico
You did have women printers, even in that very early period. The most common way to become a female printer was to continue the shop of a husband upon his death

lfillingham.bsky.social•428 days ago

That's what I thought! But I thought you meant the writer was being represented making fun of the monkey, and there's the woman pointing at the monkey.
Words! What are they good for!
Thanks for posting the additional information.

freereed59.net•428 days ago

Yes! Fascinating thread.

helendecruz.net•428 days ago

But I strongly suspect that women printers already did a lot of the workshop stuff before, and just continued doing it.

zenothankyou.bsky.social•428 days ago

(My girlfriend, Andrea, has an ex-boyfriend also named Andrea. Meanwhile I have kissed two Morgans, both a woman and a man…)

allengarvin.bsky.social•428 days ago

Was that printed in Venice? I didn't know Antico operated outside of Rome.

I've got a physical facsimile of that someplace around here, which I can't find at the moment, but here's a pic of another Antico publication, his first missarum.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CbXrOCYuX6s/

helendecruz.net•428 days ago

The place of pub is not mentioned, it being illegal that's understandable, but it was Venice where he was originally from (he did get Papal privilege later on this prob explains why a lot of his printed music is from ROme)

berkeleyeve.bsky.social•428 days ago

and the composer(s)? its kind of early for keyboard... ricercars and music for mass pretty much

rivertalesien.bsky.social•428 days ago

The pettiness. I love it.

baswisselink.com•428 days ago

Grumpy monkeh!

allengarvin.bsky.social•428 days ago

Do you know these covers? The first was from a 1538 collection printed by Gardano in Venice: "Motetti del frutto". Later that year, a printer in Ferrara copied the contents into his own publication, "Motetti de la Simia", showing a monkey eating fruit.

allengarvin.bsky.social•428 days ago

In 1539, Gardano printed another book of 6 voice motets, with a bear and a lion, the traditional heraldic animals of Venice, feasting upon a monkey!

helendecruz.net•428 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/helenreflects.bsky.social/post/3khkpl5uhij25

helendecruz.net•428 days ago

This is so cool! I didn't know them!

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