Ferdinando Ongania.

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Carlo Montanaro Archive (cover and mini-gallery).

A Venetian publisher and bookseller, he was the first to make the Grimani Breviary known, albeit in a modest form.
'La Basilica di S. Marco illustrata nella storia e nell'arte' (St Mark's Basilica illustrated in history and art) was the workhorse of his almost 40-year career in publishing illustrated art books.

Ferdinando Ongania was born in Venice in 1842 and, in his early twenties, began working in the bookshop/publishing house of the German Hermann Frederich Münster  located on the ground floor of the Ala Napoleonica, opposite St. Mark's Basilica; a true cultural centre that, in addition to selling books, prints and photographs, ran a circulating library in four languages and a reading cabinet.In 1871, Ongania became the owner of the Münster bookshop together with his partner and friend Ivan Beloserski, but the latter abandoned it. From 1872 to the year of his death 1911, Ongania devoted hims

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