Gianfrancesco Cresci

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Letter written in the testeggiata style of italic bastarda script by Gianfrancesco Cresci, 1572; in the Vatican Library, Vatican City (MS Vat. Lat. 1685, fol. 135r).

Italic bastarda

Gianfrancesco Cresci

Italian calligrapher

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testeggiata
…this hybrid the Vatican scriptor Gianfrancesco Cresci developed a highly cursive, free-flowing hand. His italic bastarda is topped off with accents at the end of ascenders made by doubling back at the start of the stroke and exerting a bit of pressure at that point on a rather flexible nib.
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…this hybrid the Vatican scriptor Gianfrancesco Cresci developed a highly cursive, free-flowing hand. His italic bastarda is topped off with accents at the end of ascenders made by doubling back at the start of the stroke and exerting a bit of pressure at that point on a rather flexible nib.
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calligraphy
Writing manuals and copybooks (16th to 18th century)
…influence of the Vatican scribe Gianfrancesco Cresci.
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…influence of the Vatican scribe Gianfrancesco Cresci.
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