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Benalio [Benali; Benalius], Bernardino
(b Bergamo, c. 1458; fl Venice, 1543). Italian printer and publisher of books and prints. He settled in Venice c. 1480 and in 1483 was running a bookshop at the sign of St Jerome in the Merceria and published the Supplementum chronicarum of Jacobus Philippus Foresti (Bergomensis; 1434–1520). Between then and 1543, the year of the publication of Girolamo Savonarola’s Trattato dell’amor di Gesù, he published (alone or with other publishers) over 100 texts of Classical and contemporary authors, treatises on law and medicine, as well as several books of a religious nature, mostly in Latin. Among the most famous illustrated works are those of Dante Alighieri (1491) and Ovid (1493–4). After c. 1500 Benalio’s publishing activity declined (c. 40 post-1500 publications are known), perhaps pushed into second place by his new interest, the publication and marketing of prints. For this purpose he opened a branch at Padua, entrusting its management to a relative, Bartolomeo Bianzago ( fl 1510–17). On 9 February 1514 he requested a licence to print ‘molte belle hystorie deuote’, including the Drowning of Pharaoh (Muraro and Rosand, pl. 7), Susanna (Muraro and Rosand, pl. 10) and the Sacrifice of Abraham (Oberhuber, no. 131), the first two of which can very probably be identified with famous works by Titian. None of the prints listed in a later request (6 May 1516) has survived.
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