Sign in

Private company

Giunti

Florentine family of printers

The Giunti, sometimes given as Giunta, were a Florentine family of printers. The first Giunti publishing bookshop was established in Venice by Lucantonio Giunti, who began printing under his own name in 1499 or 1500. The press of his brother Filippo Giunti (1450–1517) in Florence, active from 1497, was a leading printing firm in that city from the turn of the sixteenth century.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

See how the biggest companies compare on our leaderboards

Giglio Giunti 1521
Photo: Lucantonio Giunta, d. 1538, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

The Giunti, sometimes given as Giunta, were a Florentine family of printers. The first Giunti publishing bookshop was established in Venice by Lucantonio Giunti, who began printing under his own name in 1499 or 1500. The press of his brother Filippo Giunti (1450–1517) in Florence, active from 1497, was a leading printing firm in that city from the turn of the sixteenth century. Some thirty members of the family became printers or booksellers. A press was established in Lyon in 1520. By about 1550 there were Giunti bookshops or warehouses in Antwerp, Burgos, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Medina del Campo, Paris, Salamanca and Zaragoza, and agencies in numerous cities of the Italian peninsula, including Bologna, Brescia, Genoa, Livorno, Lucca, Naples, Piacenza, Pisa, Siena and Turin, as well as the islands of Sardinia and Sicily.2

The story

The origins of the family are unknown. The first documentary record, from 1427, finds the three brothers Luca, Giunta and Iacopo in the parish of Santa Lucia d'Ognissanti, where they lived with their mother; their father Biagio had died. Luca was ill, Giunta was a weaver, and Iacopo a labourer. In 1451 Giunta's seven sons were living together within the walls of Florence; among them were Lucantonio and Filippo, founders of the family printing business.

From Wikipedia’s article on Giunti (printers), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Sources

The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4