Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Andrea Antico was an Italian music printer, editor, publisher and composer of the Renaissance, 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. Antico was born in Montona in the Republic of Venice. His ethnicity is not known; fifteenth century Montona had a mixed population of Italians and Croats.