History of printing Paris. In 1473 Kasper Straube published the "Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474" in Kraków. Dirk Martens set up a printing press in Aalst (Flanders) in 1473. He printed a book about the two lovers of Enea Piccolomini who became Pope Pius II. In 1476 a printing press was set up in England by William Caxton. The Italian Juan Pablos set up an imported press in Mexico City in 1539. The first printing press in Southeast Asia was set up in the Philippines by the Spanish in 1593. The Rev. Jose Glover intended to bring the first printing press to England's
Subiaco Press Subiaco Press The Subiaco Press was a printing press located in Subiaco, Italy. The Press was established in 1464 by the German monks Arnold Pannartz and Konrad Sweinheim in the Abbey of Santa Scolastica at Subiaco. It was the first printing press in Italy. The first book printed at Subiaco was a Donatus; it has not been preserved. This was followed by Cicero's "De Oratore" in September 1465 (which is extant - a copy is in the Buchgewerbehaus at Leipzig). The next book was Lactantius's "De divinis institutionibus" printed in October 1465. In 1467, Augustine's "The City of God" was