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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ottaviano Petrucci has received more than 110,863 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Ottaviano Petrucci is the 173rd most popular inventor (down from 161st in 2019), the 1,919th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,799th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Italian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Ottaviano Petrucci ranks 173 out of 354Before him are David Edward Hughes, Siegfried Marcus, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Georges Claude, Shigeo Shingo, and George Washington. After him are Peter Henlein, Hubert Cecil Booth, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Melvil Dewey, Matthew Boulton, and Johann Christoph Denner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1466, Ottaviano Petrucci ranks 10Before him are Andrea Doria, Quentin Matsys, Alonso de Ojeda, Şehzade Ahmet, Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua, and Giovanni Sforza. After him is Ashikaga Yoshitane. Among people deceased in 1539, Ottaviano Petrucci ranks 11Before him are Ferdinand Columbus, Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, George, Duke of Saxony, Elizabeth Blount, Anthony Maria Zaccaria, and John III, Duke of Cleves. After him are Il Pordenone, Pierre Gringore, Vannoccio Biringuccio, and Lorenzo Campeggio.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ottaviano Petrucci ranks 1,919 out of 4,668Before him are Nevio Scala (1947), Eleanor of Anjou (1289), Paolo Boi (1528), Peter Krešimir IV of Croatia (null), Marino Marini (1901), and Niccolò de' Niccoli (1365). After him are Tommaso Mocenigo (1343), Gian Giacomo Trivulzio (1440), Guido Cantelli (1920), Giovanni Aldini (1762), Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666), and Vincenzo Catena (1470).

Among INVENTORS In Italy

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