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Browse All : Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 50-1515 and Italic type and Publishing houses of Italy - Venice from 1966 approximate
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Title
Aldus Manutius
Creator
Thom, Robert A., 1915-1979
Summary
Perhaps the greatest figure in book publishing history, Aldus Manutius established a printing firm in Venice during the Fifteenth Century which published "pocket-sized" editions of Greek and Latin classics at low cost. His Aldine Press made it possible for commoners to read Aristotle, Euripides, Plato and Plutarch. The works were distinguished by typographical beauty and accuracy of scholarship. He was the first printer to use small capitals and italics; he authored one of the first Greek-Latin dictionaries, and founded an academy of famous Greek scholars.
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