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Fugger
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Fug·ger  (fgr)
Family of German financiers who exerted great economic and political influence in the 15th and 16th centuries. Founded by Johannes (1348-1409), the family business was greatly expanded by his son Jakob (died 1469).
Fugger (German) [ˈfʊgər]
n
(Biographies / X 15th- and 16th-century Europe) a German family of merchants and bankers, prominent in 15th- and 16th-century Europe
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The Fugger family gained prominence through commercial and financial activities and became financiers to both ecclesiastical and secular rulers.
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A series of five appendices trace first editions printed by Gardano in the 1560s, Gardano prints in the libraries of the Fugger family of Augsburg (perhaps the most famous Northern collectors of music at the time), books financed by Gardano, publications of Antonio Gardano available in 1591, and general descriptions of binder's copies ("collections of printed books bound together under one cover in a single volume" [19]).
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