(1955-2012) Artist printer and publisher. Raised in Verona, Zanella was the last heir of the ‘private printers’ active in the city of Verona. Between 1977 and 1982 he was a partner in Plain Wrapper Press and printed together with Richard Gabriel Rummonds, an American intellectual and printer, some fifteen titles. When Rummonds returned home, Zanella continued his private printer business, both printing for himself and as a designer and printer for other publishers. The Ampersand sign, under which Linea is published, first appears in 1990; it covers his own editions as well as the print shop proper. Alongside his publishing and artistic activities, Zanella also taught, holding numerous courses in typography, both privately and at the University of Verona and the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. He passed away prematurely in Crete in 2012, bequeathing us his refined editions, later exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
