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REVIEWS. 105 traft in the sense of having paid for its printing. At all events, it is very unlikely that there should have been a fully-developed publisher at Trent as early as 1476. Three years later the same type was revived at Trent, with a few minor changes, by Giovanni Leonardo Longo, who had previously printed at Vicenza and Torrebelvicino, near Bergamo. Dr. Dolch allows him only a single Christian name, Leonardo, but the first of the initials ' Z. L.,' which conclude his undated Cal- phurnius, must, one imagines, represent some form of ' Giovanni/ It may be mentioned, by the way, that one Raphael Romeus, whose surname was Giovenzoni, contributed two poems to the .traft of Calphurnius just mentioned, and this may, there- fore, possibly be identical with the c Calphurnius et Zovenzonius, 1482,' quoted from a short refer- ence in Hain (no. 4268) by Dr. Dolch as no. 5 of Longo's list. Turning from Trent to Vienna, Dr. Dolch is able to enumerate as many as eleven tra<5ts by the anonymous printer who was chiefly aftive there in the year 1482, and can be traced at work as late as 1485. A full discussion of his identity is to be found in the c Anhang' of Dr. Ignaz Schwarz, who comes to the same conclusions as have been inde- pendently arrived at in the British Museum Cata- logue of Fifteenth Century Books viz., firstly that the Johannes Cassis who has hitherto been assumed as the owner of the press in question, was as a fat quite unconnected with it ; and secondly, that the real owner was in all probability Stephan Koblinger, a Viennese, who printed at Vicenza in 1479 and