Ugo da Carpi (ca. 1480–1532)

• Ugo da Carpi was an Italian printmaker.
• He was the 10th of the 13 children of Count Astolfo da Panico and Elisabetta da Dallo.
• He was born in Carpi, a town in the province of Modena.
• He was known as Ugo Panico early in his life.
• There are records of Ugo buying and selling land in Carpi in 1495, 1496, and 1503.
• His first work as a carver was in 1502, when he signed a contract with the Modenese typographers Benedetto Dolcibelli and Niccolo Bissoli to carve characters and punches.
• In 1503, records refer to "Ugo's pupils" and reference him as a "maestro" for the first time.
• Ugo lived in Venice from 1509 to 1517, mostly working as a blockcutter for woodcut book illustrations.
• Ugo moved to Rome in 1517.
• In 1518, he received a copyright from Pope Leo X for his four-block print The Death of the Ananias.
• In 1527 the sack of Rome forced Ugo to flee to Bologna.
• In January 1532, Ugo was referenced in attendee records from his daughter’s baptism, but in October of that year he was again described as deceased.

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