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Ottaviano Petrucci

1466 - 1539

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Ottaviano Petrucci (Fossombrone, 18 June 1466 – Venice, 7 May 1539) was an Italian printer. His Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, a collection of chansons printed in 1501, is commonly misidentified as the first book of sheet music printed from movable type. Actually that distinction belongs to the Roman printer Ulrich Han's Missale Romanum of 1476. Nevertheless, Petrucci's later work was extraordinary for the complexity of his white mensural notation and the smallness of his font, and he did in fact print the first book of polyphony using movable type. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ottaviano Petrucci is the 196th most popular inventor (down from 190th in 2019), the 2,195th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,176th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Italian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Ottaviano Petrucci ranks 196 out of 426. Before him are Lucien Olivier, Larry Sanger, Sequoyah, Johann Christoph Denner, George de Mestral, and Viktor Schauberger. After him are Garrett Morgan, J. Presper Eckert, Georges Claude, Eunice Newton Foote, Hovannes Adamian, and Bartolomeu de Gusmão.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1466, Ottaviano Petrucci ranks 10. Before him are Andrea Doria, Quentin Matsys, Alonso de Ojeda, Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua, Giovanni Sforza, and Şehzade Ahmet. After him are Ashikaga Yoshitane, and Marino Sanuto the Younger. Among people deceased in 1539, Ottaviano Petrucci ranks 11. Before him are Ayas Mehmed Pasha, Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Ferdinand Columbus, George, Duke of Saxony, Ayşe Hatun, and Elizabeth Blount. After him are John III, Duke of Cleves, Il Pordenone, Pierre Gringore, and Vannoccio Biringuccio.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ottaviano Petrucci ranks 2,195 out of 5,161. Before him are Desiderio da Settignano (1430), Mario Brega (1923), Aripert II (680), Frédéric Ozanam (1813), Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano (1743), and Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este (1824). After him are Nicola Canali (1874), Lorenzo Bartolini (1777), Guenther Steiner (1965), Virginio Rosetta (1902), Walter de Silva (1951), and Alberto Lattuada (1914).

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Among INVENTORS In Italy

Among inventors born in Italy, Ottaviano Petrucci ranks 6. Before him are Leonardo da Vinci (1452), Guglielmo Marconi (1874), Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655), Antonio Meucci (1808), and Johann Maria Farina (1685). After him are Angelo Moriondo (1851), Max Valier (1895), Giovanni Caselli (1815), and Andrew Viterbi (1935).

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