Description:Excerpt from Early Venetian Printing IllustratedBut Venetian typography owes its great fame still more especially to Aldus Manutius; above all for his celebrated editions of the Greek classics. Born in 1450 in the little district of Bassiano near Vel letri (1) instructed in Greek and Latin first in Rome by Gasparo Veronese and Do mizio Calderino, then in Ferrara by Bat tista Guarini; he came to Venice in 1489 with the intention of establishing a print ing office to be chiefly devoted to the pub lication of Greek works. Of these very few had been printed before that time, all of them in Italy in Milan, Vicenza, Venice and Florence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Early Venetian Printing Illustrated (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Early Venetian Printing Illustrated (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Early Venetian Printing Illustrated (Classic Reprint)
Description: Excerpt from Early Venetian Printing IllustratedBut Venetian typography owes its great fame still more especially to Aldus Manutius; above all for his celebrated editions of the Greek classics. Born in 1450 in the little district of Bassiano near Vel letri (1) instructed in Greek and Latin first in Rome by Gasparo Veronese and Do mizio Calderino, then in Ferrara by Bat tista Guarini; he came to Venice in 1489 with the intention of establishing a print ing office to be chiefly devoted to the pub lication of Greek works. Of these very few had been printed before that time, all of them in Italy in Milan, Vicenza, Venice and Florence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Early Venetian Printing Illustrated (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Early Venetian Printing Illustrated (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.