• terminator. In 1496, the semicolon ; is attested in Pietro Bembo's book De Aetna [it] printed by Aldo Manuzio. The punctuation also appears in later writings...
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  • can easily be recognized as the modern question mark. (See, for example, De Aetna [it] (1496) printed by Aldo Manuzio in Venice.) In 1598, the English term...
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    calendar), was a book entitled Petri Bembi de Aetna Angelum Chabrielem liber. This book, usually now called De Aetna, was a short 60-page text about a journey...
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    Manutius by engraver Francesco Griffo. This was first used in the book De Aetna, a short work by poet and cleric Pietro Bembo which was Manutius' first...
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  • Press edition of Pietro Bembo's narrative Petri Bembi de Aetna Angelum Chabrielem liber ("De Aetna", a description of a journey to Mount Etna) published...
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  • 2012). "The Yale Type". The New Journal. Retrieved 16 May 2012. Digital scan of De Aetna (Internet Archive, via Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze)...
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    edition (2002) ed.). London: Hyphen Press. pp. 72–4. ISBN 0-907259-21-9. De Aetna was decisive in shaping the printers' alphabet. The small letters are very...
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  • of serif letterforms across history: The roman type of Nicolas Jenson De Aetna, printed by Aldus Manutius Title page printed by Robert Estienne Great...
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    writer, in the book De Ætna ad Angelum Chabrielem Liber (1496), Bembo tells how he and his father, Bernardo, climbed Mount Ætna and there found snow...
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    the moment when the first true synthesis occurred was in the type of De Aetna. This led me in turn to the Beinecke Library to pore over their copy of...
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  • Aetna (Ancient Greek: Αἴτνη Aἴtnē) was in Greek and Roman mythology a Sicilian nymph and, according to Alcimus, a daughter of Uranus and Gaia or of Briareus...
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    authors. Manutius launched Pietro Bembo's career as a writer by publishing De Aetna in 1496, which was the Aldine Press's first Latin publication by a contemporary...
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    a revised version of a type which Aldus had first used in 1496 for the De Aetna of Pietro Bembo. The type is thought to be one of the first examples of...
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  • French. The apostrophe was first used by Pietro Bembo in his edition of De Aetna (1496). It was introduced into English in the 16th century in imitation...
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    the moment when the first true synthesis occurred was in the type of De Aetna. This led me in turn to the Beinecke Library to pore over their copy of...
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    Maternus, 17 October 1499. Petri Bembi de Aetna ad Angelum Chabrielem liber, Pietro Bembo, February 1496. Diaria de Bello Carolino, Alessandro Benedetti...
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    influence of types cut by Francesco Griffo in 1495 for a small book titled De Aetna written by Pietro Bembo. The typeface is classified as belonging to the...
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  • calendar) of the Julian calendar. February – Pietro Bembo's Petri Bembi de Aetna Angelum Chalabrilem liber, a description of a journey to Mount Etna, is...
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    wrote his first work De Aetna, then published by Aldo Manuzio in February 1496 (1495 according to the Venetian calendar). De Aetna was even dedicated to...
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  • Nero, a friend and correspondent of Seneca, and the possible author of Aetna, a poem that survives in a corrupt state. The information about Lucilius...
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    1490s (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Readings in the Tuscan Language February – Pietro Bembo's Petri Bembi de Aetna Angelum Chalabrilem liber, a description of a journey to Mount Etna, is...
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    Mount Etna (redirect from Mt. Aetna)
    [mondʒiˈbɛllo]; Sicilian: Muncibbeḍḍu [mʊntʃɪbˈbɛɖɖʊ] or 'a Muntagna; Latin: Aetna; Ancient Greek: Αἴτνα and Αἴτνη), is an active stratovolcano on the east...
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  • CVS Health (section Aetna)
    a retail pharmacy chain; CVS Caremark, a pharmacy benefits manager; and Aetna, a health insurance provider, among many other brands. The company is the...
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    99 88.0 177.6/sq mi (68.6/km2) Aetna Township Mecosta 2,241 2,299 −2.5% 2,044 35.52 92.0 64.7/sq mi (25.0/km2) Aetna Township Missaukee 429 413 +3.9%...
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    Building was completed in 1965. The building's former names include the Aetna Building, Prudential Plaza I or One Prudential Plaza, and the Prudential...
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  • twice to study the crater, which Pietro Bembo references in his dialogue De Aetna. He was follower of Constantine Lascaris at Messina, friend of Pietro Bembo...
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    Etna (formerly Pedro, Aetna Furnace, and Etna Furnace) is an unincorporated community in eastern Elizabeth Township, Lawrence County, Ohio, United States...
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    HMS Aetna (or HMS Etna) was the mercantile Success launched in 1803 at Littlehampton. The Admiralty purchased her in 1803 for conversion into a Royal...
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    including Aetna, Western Union, the Pullman Car Company, and 21 railroads. His grandfather Joseph Morgan was one of the co-founders of Aetna. Through his...
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    (Αἰτναῖος), owing to his workshop being supposedly located below Mount Aetna. Polýphrōn "ingenious, inventive" (Πολύφρων) Agaklytós "very famous, glorious"...
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