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In 1555 Christophe Plantin (ca 1520-1589) established in Antwerp one
of the most successful printing and publishing businesses of all time.
Still in family hands, the Plantin Press continued operating until 1867.
Still standing, the company's former premises now comprise the Museum
Plantin-Moretus.Although he professed himself a devout Catholic, Plantin came
under the suspicion of heresy during his lifetime and it is now thought
that he was probably a member of a heretical sect known as the Family
of Love. Born near the city of Tours, he worked in his younger years as a
bookbinder in Paris. In the first half of the sixteenth century the
French capital was a dangerous place for anyone in the book trade
suspected of disseminating literature tinged with Reformation ideas.
This might have prompted Plantin to move to the more liberal atmosphere
of Antwerp in 1549.
Biblia Sacra
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