Fini

See Masolino. Finiguerra (fe-ne-gwer'rä), Maso. Lived in the middle of the 15th century. A Florentine goldsmith and worker in niello, the reputed in vent or copperplate engraving. The introduction of copper-plate printing is attributed to Maso Finiguerra, a goldsmith of Florence, who is supposed to have made his first print about the year 1452. It cannot be proved that Finiguerra was the inventor, for prints by this method were made in Germany as early as 1446.