Giovanni Antonio Volpi

Giovanni Antonio Volpi (1686-1717) was an Italian editor, publisher and poet.

Scholae duae, 1728

He was born in Padua. In 1717, along with his brother Gaetano and the engraver Giuseppe Comino, they founded a publishing house and book shop under the name of Libreria Cominiana or Volpi-Comminiana. The print specialized in high quality classics. Volpi studied philosophy and rhetoric and became a professor emeritus at the University of Padua.[1]

References
  1. Dizionario biografico universale, Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 654.

Works
  • Scholae duae (in Latin). Padova: Giuseppe Comino. 1728.
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