Creator Bio
Giacomo Rufinelli
16th Century
Giacomo Rufinelli was an Italian printer. From his father Venturino Ruffinelli, he inherited the post of Printer to the Duke of Mantua. After quarreling with the duke, he was stripped of this honor and from 1584 was forbidden to print books, though he continued to print some works illicitly. He then worked in Rome with two well-known printers.
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Haggadah from Mantua, 1560
This Haggadah from Mantua, published by the Christian printer Giacomo Rufinelli under the supervision of Isaac ben Solomon Bassan, relies heavily on the Prague Haggadah of 1526, with the addition of…