Andrea Antico

Andrea Antico was a music printer, editor, publisher and composer of the Renaissance born in the Republic of Venice, of Istrian birth, active in Rome and in Venice. He was the first printer of sacred music in Rome, and the earliest competitor of Venetian Ottaviano Petrucci, who is regarded as the first significant music printer.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article on Andrea Antico.

From the period sources

Andrea Antico is known to have published a collection in Rome in 1516, which included two masses for four voices by Pierre de la Rue, according to the Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1888). This detail places Antico as an editor or publisher of musical works in the early 16th century, contributing to the dissemination of compositions by his contemporaries.