About Valentim Fernandes
Lived 1450 – 1510 (aged 59–60). Valentim Fernandes was a printer.
Valentim Fernandes (died 1518 or 1519) was a printer who lived in Portugal. An ethnic German originally from Moravia, he moved to Lisbon, Portugal in 1495 where he lived and worked for 23 years, he was a writer and a translator of various classical texts. He printed on the orders of Leonor of Viseu and worked on the book Vita Christi.
He died in Lisbon in 1518 or 1519.
He worked with different intellectuals and artists, including Albrecht Dürer, Hieronymus Münzer and Mathias Ringmann (better known as Philesius Vogesigena who was a translator).
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Portuguese printer
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Valentim Fernandes was born in 1450 in Moravia.
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Valentim Fernandes died in 1510 in Lisbon.
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Valentim Fernandes was a printer.
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