Pietro Perna [SEP] place of death
Pietro Perna
Pietro Perna (1519 – 16 August 1582) was an Italian printer, the leading printer of Late Renaissance Basel, the Erasmian crossroads between Italian Renaissance humanism and the Protestant Reformation. His books promoted the Italian heretical thinkers at the origins of Socinianism and the theory of Tolerance. He was a major publisher of Protestant historians like Flacius Illyricus and David Chytraeus and promoted the ars historica treatises of the period, notably the 18 "authores de historia" in Artis Historicae Penus (1579).
A native of Lucca
Perna (surname)
Perna is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Armando Perna (born 1981), Italian football central defender
- Gustave F. Perna (born 1960), United States Army general
- Martín Perna (born 1975), American educator and artist
- Pietro Perna (born 1582), Italian printer