The Collaboration with Giovanni di Piero da Magonza, and Marsilio Ficino’s De Christiana religione, ca. 1474–1476

Bibliographers use the descriptions of character types not only to identify printers’ names but also to date their works. Throughout Niccolò di Lorenzo’s career as a printer he used seven different types (all but one Roman), starting with a 113R (“Type 4*”).¹ Regarding this, Victor Scholderer actually distinguished two different types that developed out of each other, an earlier 114R (for the Ficino) and a 113R (from 1477 onward).² The very first book attributed to Niccolò di Lorenzo’s press with this type was the rendering in volgare of Marsilio Ficino’s De Christiana religione, of which more than fifty copies have