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    Aldus Pius Manutius (/məˈnjuːʃiəs/; Italian: Aldo Pio Manuzio; c. 1449/1452 – 6 February 1515) was an Italian printer and humanist who founded the Aldine...
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    Microsoft Office Visio. Paul Brainerd and the other Aldus partners named the company after Aldus Pius Manutius, a renowned fifteenth-century Venetian pioneer...
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    press issued 132 books during twenty years of activity under Aldus Manutius. After Manutius' death in 1515, the press was continued by his wife Maria and...
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  • Aldus Manutius, the Younger (/məˈnjuːʃiəs/; Italian: Aldo Manuzio il Giovane; 13 February 1547 — 28 October 1597) was the grandson of Aldus Manutius and...
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    or hedera (ivy leaf). It is also known as an aldus leaf (after Italian Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius). Flower decorations are among the oldest typographic...
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  • Aldus may refer to: Aldus Manutius, a Venetian publisher who popularized small personal volumes Aldus Manutius the Younger, grandson of Aldus Manutius...
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    increasingly literate populace. Yet another possible origin is ascribed to Aldus Manutius, a Venetian printer (fl. 1450-1515), who was denounced by detractors...
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    followed the model of an influential typeface cut for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius by his punchcutter Francesco Griffo in 1495, and are in what is now...
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    early printing). The work was first published in 1499 in Venice by Aldus Manutius. This first edition has an elegant page layout, with refined woodcut...
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    Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, sometimes generically called the "Aldine roman". Bembo is named after Manutius's first publication with it,...
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    process at the time. Italic type was first used by Aldus Manutius and his press in Venice in 1500. Manutius intended his italic type to be used not for emphasis...
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    Palatino (redirect from Aldus (typeface))
    Typographicum, a history of letter design. Aldus is named for the Venetian Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius. The decision annoyed Zapf (who preferred...
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  • Bologna, was a fifteenth-century Italian punchcutter. He worked for Aldus Manutius, designing the printer's more important humanist typefaces, including...
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    Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius adopted the symbol of the dolphin and anchor as his printer's mark. Erasmus (whose books were published by Manutius) featured...
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    the third son of the famous printer Aldus Manutius and his wife Maria Torresano. As a young man, Paulus Manutius moved to Venice to get an education and...
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  • first book to be published by Aldus Manutius, in Venice, using typefaces cut by Francesco Griffo. 1495–1498 – Aldus Manutius publishes the Aldine Press edition...
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    Giovanni Pietro in 1501. It was printed in two large-format volumes by Aldus Manutius in Venice. Iolanda Ventura (2004), "Quaestiones and Encyclopedias",...
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    Venice was the printing capital of the world; the leading printer was Aldus Manutius, who invented paperback books that could be carried in a saddlebag....
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  • influential 1495 font cut by engraver Francesco Griffo for printer Aldus Manutius, which became the inspiration for many typefaces cut in France from...
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    as "Poor man's Bible" due to its affordability. Beginning in 1501, Aldus Manutius of Venice began to print classical works in small octavo format which...
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    Anton Koberger in 1493; and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili printed by Aldus Manutius with important illustrations by an unknown artist.[citation needed]...
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    script passed to the 15th- and 16th-century printers of books, such as Aldus Manutius of Venice. In this way it forms the basis of our modern lowercase typefaces...
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    Retrieved 27 January 2017. "Aldus Manutius facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Aldus Manutius". www.encyclopedia.com. Archived...
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  • writer, editor and theatrical director (died c. 1563) February 16 – Aldus Manutius, Italian printer-publisher and poet (born 1449) unknown date Jacques...
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  • with an effort to engage the student with the world of visual culture. Aldus Manutius designed the first italic type style which is often used in desktop...
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    added as supplements in the newly invented technology of printing by Aldus Manutius in his editions of Dante's Divine Comedy dating from early in the 16th...
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    archived copy as title (link) Aldus' second edition printing of Dante's Divine Comedy, Venice 1502. "1515, Venice: ALDUS MANUTIUS AND ANDREA TORRESANI DI ASOLO"...
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  • Aldine is an adjective pertaining to Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius, including the renowned publications and typography of the Aldine Press he founded...
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  • century. 1501 Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an octavo edition of Virgil's Aeneid...
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    eventually did not accept and longed for a stay in Italy. Italian circle Aldus Manutius • Giulio Camillo • Aleander • Alexander Stewart • Pietro Bembo • Bombasius •...
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