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 (Italian: Aldo Manuzio il Giovane) (13 February 1547 — 28 October 1597) was the grandson of Aldus Manutius and son of Paulus...
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Fleuron (typography) (redirect from Aldus leaf)
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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Printer's devil (section Aldus Manutius)
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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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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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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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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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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Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, sometimes generically called the "Aldine roman". Bembo is named for Manutius's first publication with it, a...
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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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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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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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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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Collections Exhibitions". bridwell.omeka.net. Retrieved 2024-01-08. Martin Lowry, The World of Aldus Manutius, Cornell University Press, 1979, pp. 137–167....
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Paulus Manutius (Italian: Paolo Manuzio; 1512–1574) was a Venetian printer with a humanist education, the third son of the famous printer Aldus Manutius and...
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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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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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printer's device was a dolphin, referencing 16th century Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, and he named the press after Pelorus Jack. "It was a happy thought...
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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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Retrieved 27 January 2017. "Aldus Manutius facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Aldus Manutius". www.encyclopedia.com. Archived...
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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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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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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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house (Manuzio) is rendered Manutius in the English translation; it is a reference to the 15th century printer Aldus Manutius. The mystical experience involved...
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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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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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specifically those by Nicolas Jenson and the Aldine roman commissioned by Aldus Manutius and cut by Francesco Griffo. The letterforms were based on a synthesis...
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in 1885. The 6th-century Byzantine poet Musaeus also wrote a poem; Aldus Manutius made it one of his first publications (c. 1493) after he set up his...
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