Juan Pablos

Giovanni Paoli, better known as Juan Pablos (1500?–1560 or 1561), a native of Lombardy, was the first documented printer in the Americas when he started printing in Mexico in 1539.

Pablos departed from Seville on 12 June 1539 and arrived in October 1539, when he set up the company in the "casa de Juan Cromberger".

[3] The first known book to be published in the Americas was the 1539 edition of the Breve y mas compendiosa doctrina Christiana en lengua Mexicana y Castellana by Juan de Zumárraga.

[1] Juan Pablos was married to Geronima Gutierrez, who received the viceroyal printing privilege after his death.

[4] Their daughter Maria de Figueroa married Pedro Ocharte in 1561 or 1562, and they took over the company from Gutierrez in 1563.

Title page of the Phisica speculatio , published in 1557
Casa de Juan Cromberger in Mexico City, the location of the first printing press in the Americas