Aldus Manutius

Wynkyn de Worde, Aldus Manutius, as well as one B.

Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it 2010

Published in 1499 by the renowned printer Aldus Manutius, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream contains 172 woodcuts by an unknown artist.

2010 January 22 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2010

As for publishers, Mr. Ackroyd tells us about Aldus Manutius, who maintained an academy of Greek scholars to revive classical learning and became aware that knowledge of the classics could be wrapped up in packages like bales of raisins; he could turn learning into a commodity.

A Grumpy Ride Along the Canals Judith Martin 2010

Published in 1499 by the renowned printer Aldus Manutius, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream contains 172 woodcuts by an unknown artist.

Arguably the most beautiful book ever Printed… 2010

The 'old roman' fount of Aldus Manutius became the European norm in the late 15th century.

Archive 2008-04-01 DC 2008

Years later, in the Greek Theocritus of 1496, the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius took a similar complacent or resigned line, to the effect that something is better than nothing, and a text once printed can at least find many correctors where a manuscript can only receive occasional and individual emendation.emphases added

Information, Culture, Policy, Education: History of information 2008

The 'old roman' fount of Aldus Manutius became the European norm in the late 15th century.

On question-marks DC 2008

After his father's premature death, his uncle Giovanni Pico supervised the boy's education and engaged the humanist Aldus Manutius (the future Venetian publisher) as his tutor.

Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

Aldus Manutius explains it as a sort of compromise: the semi-circle (i.e. comma), he says, doesn't give a long enough pause, whereas the double point (i.e. the colon) slows up the speech too much.

On semi-colons DC 2008

Aldus Manutius explains it as a sort of compromise: the semi-circle (i.e. comma), he says, doesn't give a long enough pause, whereas the double point (i.e. the colon) slows up the speech too much.

Archive 2008-04-01 DC 2008