Joachim Trognaesius, sometimes Trognesius or Trogney, was a printer and bookseller in late-16th-century and early-17th-century Antwerp.
Life
Joachim Trognaesius is first mentioned as a bookseller in the accounts of the Plantin Office in 1586 and of the Chamber of Rhetoric the Violieren in 1588. As a printer he produced works in Dutch, French, Italian, English and Latin, including history books, devotional works, classical texts and almanacs. There was a particular prevalence of Jesuit works among his output. He was also, together with his son Alexander, alleged to be a purveyor of illustrated editions of the pornographic sonnets of Pietro Aretino. He had commercial links with the geographer Abraham Ortelius. He died on 23 June 1624. His business, on the churchyard of Antwerp Cathedral, was continued by his son, Caesar Joachim Trognaesius, who was also a designer of calligraphic type.
1588: Jan Franco, Almanach oft journael voor't schrickel-jaer ons Heeren M.D.LXXXVIII – a calendar for the year 1588
1588: Statuta synodalia dioecesis Atrebatensis cum praedecessorum statutis adjectis – statutes of the diocesan synod of the diocese of Arras
1589: I. B., The copy of a letter lately written by a Spanishe gentleman, to his freind in England in refutation of sundry calumnies, there falsly bruited, and spred emonge the people. The authors being in England by reason of the late Armado – counter-propaganda regarding the Spanish Armada
1589: Cort verhael vanden aenslach die d'Engelsche hebben aenhevanghen in Spaengien ende Portugael – an account of the English Armada's activities on the coasts of Spain and Portugal
1593: William Rainolds, A treatise conteyning the true catholike and apostolike faith of the holy sacrifice and sacrament ordeyned by Christ at his last Supper
1595: Luis de Molina, S.J., Liberi arbitrii cum gratiae donis, divina praescientia, providentia, praedestinatione, et reprobatione, concordia
1596: Orazio Torsellini, S.J., De vita Francisci Xaverii, qui primus e Societate Jesu in Indiam & Japoniam evangelium invexit, libri sex – a life of St Francis Xavier, S.J.
1597–1604: Francis Coster, S.J., Catholijcke sermoonen op de evangelien van de sondaghen – sermons on the Sunday Gospels, in three parts: Pentecost to Advent, Advent to Lent, Lent and Eastertide. , , and available on Google Books
1600: Julius Fatius, S.J., Van 't versterven der menschelijcker affectien, translated from Italian to Dutch by Thomas Sailly, S.J. – a treatise on mortification.
1607: De Reghelen der societeyt Iesu – the Rule of the Society of Jesus.
1609: Pompeo Giustiniano, Delle guerre di Fiandra libri VI, edited by Giuseppe Gamurini
1620: Francisco Ribera, S.J., Het leven der h. moeder Terese van Iesus, fundaterse vande barvoetsche Carmeliten ende Carmeliterssen – a Dutch translation of a Spanish life of Teresa of Avila. and available on Google Books.
