Lamentatio Nigropontis: An Unknown Print of Sixtus Riessinger, a Prototypographer of Naples

Kamil Boldan

Pages	5–12
DOI	10.37520/amnpsc.2022.002
Keywords	incunabula – printed Turcica – printing in Naples – Ottoman threat – siege of Negroponte
Type of Article	Peer-reviewed
Citation	BOLDAN, Kamil. Lamentatio Nigropontis: An Unknown Print of Sixtus Riessinger, a Prototypographer of Naples. Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae – Historia litterarum. Prague: National Museum, 2022, 67(1-2), 5–12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37520/amnpsc.2022.002. ISSN 2570-6861 (Print), 2570-687X (Online). Also available from: https://www.nm.cz/en/periodicals/acta-musei-nationalis-pragae-historia-litterarum/67-1-2/lamentatio-nigropontis-an-unknown-print-of-sixtus-riessinger-a-prototypographer-of-naples

Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae – Historia litterarum | 2022/67/1-2

The collection of incunabula in the National Library of the Czech Republic contains a previously unknown print published by the Naples printer Sixtus Riessinger at the end of 1470 or, more likely, in 1471. The four-folio Lamentatio Nigropontis complements the collection of 16 hitherto known prints that directly responded to the conquest of the island of Negroponte (Euboea), a colony of the Republic of Venice, by the Ottoman army of Sultan Mehmed II in 1470. The article contextualises the circumstances of the publication of one of the first prints of Naples.

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