Carlo Losi

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Bookseller and print publisher in Rome. His address, often accompanied by the date of republication such as 1773, is found on numerous very late reprints of 16th and 17th century engravings; he had almost no interest in new plates of topography, portraits or contemporary artists. HIs name is first recorded in Genoa in 1757 in a contract to reprint the Galleria Giustiniana. This never happened as he fled the city, leaving a pile of debts. Recorded working in Rome from the early 1770s; last recorded at his daughter's marriage in 1805. Carlo Losi's 'very large' catalogue of 1790 was referred to by George Cumberland ('Bonasone' pp. 223-4) who implies that his plates deposited in the Monte di Pieta against unpaid debts could be hired for printing.