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The Magnani family had been in Emilia since the 1200s and through successive migrations moved first to Liguria and then to Tuscany. They finally settled in Pescia, where the family began creating fine paper, establishing itself on world markets. Leading museums around the world house examples of Magnani paper, such as letters by the Shelley brothers and Lord Byron, the Indian religious text
Bhagavata Purana, a collection of drawings and prints made in Iran under the Qajar Dynasty, and a large number of late 18th- and early 19th-century works, now at the Castello Sforzesco’s Cabinet of Drawings in Milan, as well as the documents of Giacomo Leopardi preserved in the poet’s birthplace. Musicians like Giacomo Puccini, writers such as Gabriele D’Annunzio and artists including Pablo Picasso and Pietro Annigoni, together with many others, used personalised watermarked Magnani paper. Many countries’ mints followed suit to print their paper currencies and the securities industr