Aldus Manutius: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Teobaldo Manucci • Aldo Manuzio il Vecchio • Aldus Manutius the Elder
Born	1449 • Italy
Died	February 6, 1515 (aged 66) • Venice • Italy
Notable Family Members	son Paulus Manutius

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Roman type used by Aldus Manutius the Elder in De Aetna by Pietro Bembo, Aldine Press, Venice, 1495 (twice actual size).

Pages from Virgil's Opera printed by Aldus Manutius in 1501, featuring Latin text in both upright and italic typefaces.

Two pages from Virgil's Opera printed by Aldus Manutius in 1501, showing early italic typeface with decorative headings and an illustration at the bottom of the lower page.

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Aldus Manutius the Younger

Italian printer

William Morris

British artist and author

William Caxton

English printer, translator, and publisher

Robert Maxwell

Czechoslovak-born British publisher

Henri II Estienne

French scholar and printer

Robert Foulis

Scottish printer

Title page to the Biblia, showing olive-tree motif adopted as Estienne family emblem, 1532

Robert I Estienne

French scholar and printer

Isaiah Thomas

American journalist

Daniel Berkeley Updike

American printer and publisher

Johann Fust

German printer

Edward Blount

English publisher

Wynkyn de Worde

English printer

Geoffroy Tory

French printer

Henry Richard Vizetelly

British-Italian publisher

Giambattista Bodoni

Italian printer

Paulus Manutius

Italian printer

Ottaviano dei Petrucci

Italian music printer

Daniel MacMillan

Scottish publisher

Alexander MacMillan

Scottish publisher

Hyacinthe-Firmin Didot

French printer and typesetter

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