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Bertelli family represents the largest group of publishers, engravers, cartographers and merchants of prints of the sixteenth century. Ferrando Bertelli was the most productive, active between 1570, the 1560th, but maps of the last quarter of the century are known by the names of Andrea, Donato, Lucca, Nicholas and Peter. This was mainly active in Padua, where he led a workshop in letterpress and engravings. The earliest records show the asset at the date of 1589 as an engraver of several plates for an edition entitled Diversarum nationum habitus which was published in collaboration with Alciato Alciati. Pietro Bertelli had a library in Padua "the banner of the Angel". At his death the business was inherited by his son Francis. Donato Bertelli was printer, publisher and print dealer, was probably born in Padua, as is made clear by some of its branches ("Donatus Bertellius Patavinus") but active in Venice between 1563 and 1574, although it tends to expand its activities 1558 to 1592 on the basis of cartographic material marketed by him in those years. He worked in the workshop of Ferdinando Bertelli - with which it is not yet clear to the family relationship - from whom he inherited the branches etching, substituting his own name. As a publisher chalcographer emerged from his workshop papers invention or derivation Christmas Bonifacio, Giacomo Gastaldi, Ortelius etc.. In view of the large number of cards he initialed the Almagia him as "the principal heir and successor of the most active producers in the second half of the sixteenth century" in Venice. His successor "to the book publishing of St. Mark" was Andrea, who always used the old branches of Donato. Bibliography: Valerio, Cartographers Veneti, p. 149.