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Bust of Aldo Manuzio. Panteon Veneto; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Aldus Manutius was born close to Rome in Bassiano between 1449 and 1452. [2] [3] [4] He grew up in a wealthy family during the Italian Renaissance and in his youth was sent to Rome to become a humanist scholar.
Aldus Manutius' italic, in a 1501 edition of Virgil. Italic is only used for the lower case and not for capitals. [1] In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. [2] [3] [4] Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as one of the major typefaces in the history of Western typography.
A partial list of publications from the Aldine Press, cited from Aldus Manutius: A Legacy More Lasting than Bronze. [18] Musarum Panagyris, Aldus Manutius, sometime between March 1487 and March 1491. Erotemata cum interpretatione Latina, Constantine Lascaris, 8 March 1495.
He worked for Aldus Manutius, designing the printer's more important humanist typefaces, including the first italic type. He cut Roman, Greek, Hebrew and the first italic type. Aldus gives Griffo credit in the introduction of the Virgil of 1501. However, as Manutius had achieved a monopoly on italic printing and Greek publishing with the ...
The "Aldino" italic type, commissioned by Manutius and cut by Francesco Griffo in 1499, was a closely spaced condensed type. Griffo's punches are a delicate translation of the Italian cursive hand, featuring letters of irregular slant angle and uneven height and vertical position, with some connected pairs ( ligatures ), and unslanted small ...
Bembo is a serif typeface created by the British branch of the Monotype Corporation in 1928–1929 and most commonly used for body text.It is a member of the "old-style" of serif fonts, with its regular or roman style based on a design cut around 1495 by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, sometimes generically called the "Aldine roman".
Manutius was the inventor of the Aldine Press, which allowed books to be sold cheaply, making him considered by many to be the "father of the modern paperback," Mininger says.
Cloister Italic (1913, Benton), based on the 1501 italic face of Aldus Manutius. Cloister Bold Condensed (1917, Benton) Cloister Initials (1918, Goudy) Cloister Cursive (1922, Benton) Cloister Lightface (1924, Benton) Cloister Lightface Italic (1925, Benton) Cloister Cursive Handtooled (1926, Benton), with Charles H. Becker.