Mattia Palmieri e la stampa

The authorship of a reference to the invention of printing found in the incunable edition of EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS Chronicon, Venice, Erhard Ratdolt, 13 September 1483, which has customarily been attributed to the Pisan humanist Mattia Palmieri (1423-1483), is newly called into doubt. Attention is drawn to two forgotten references which appear in the autograph manuscript of De temporibus suis and to a hitherto unknown one (in the De bello italico), which certainly come from Palmieri. Such references, dating from the 1460s and the following decade, are remarkable both for their earliness and for the light they shed on the beginnings of printing in Rome