[PDF] Aldus Manutius eBook

Author : Aldo Manuzio
Publisher : I Tatti Renaissance Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Classical literature
ISBN : 9780674088672

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Aldus Manutius was the most innovative scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. This ITRL edition contains all of his prefaces to his editions of the Greek classics, translated for the first time into English. They provide unique insight into the world of scholarly publishing in Renaissance Venice.

Author : Peter Burnhill
Publisher : Hyphen Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Design
ISBN :

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Type Spaces examines pages of books printed and published by Aldus Manutius in Venice around 1500. By measuring the word-spaces, author Peter Burnhill discerns a system of measurement at work and comes up with the surprising suggestion that this printing shows a unified system of dimensions: of type size, of "leading" or line-increment, of line length, and of text area. He argues that the exceptional figures of Manutius and his punchcutter, Francesco Griffo, used a set of "in-house norms." This system of unified measurement has a rationality that can apply to any process of type design, in any age, and with any system of production, making the book relevant even for contemporary designers. Since the passing of metal type, we have had no clear method of measuring type size and Burnhill's work suggests a new (or very old) approach to measurement in typography.

Author : Helen Barolini
Publisher : Italica Pr
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780934977227

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"In this marvelous, learned, and friendly volume, Helen Barolini traces the contours of his career and reveals Aldus and the Aldine press in historical and cultural context; she admirably conveys the magic of an age in which the book as we know it was invented.

Author : Francesco Colonna
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 10,49 MB
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780464987871

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Francesco Colonna's weird, erotic, allegorical antiquarian tale, "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili", together with all of its 174 original woodcut illustrations, has been called the first "stream of consciousness" novel and was one of the most important documents of Renaissance imagination and fantasy. The author -- presumed to be a friar of dubious reputation -- was obsessed by architecture, landscape and costume (it is not going too far to say sexually obsessed) and its woodcuts are a primary source for Renaissance ideas.

Author : Jill Kraye
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Book collecting
ISBN : 9781908590558

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On 6 February 2015, the Warburg Institute marked the 500th anniversary of Aldus Manutius's death with a one-day colloquium on his extraordinary legacy. Rather than examining his own output, which has already received a vast amount of scholarly attention, the focus was on far less studied topics related to his later fame and reputation. This book presents revised versions of six papers from the colloquium, together with three additional contributions. The nine papers, which explore how the notion of 'Aldine books' has changed over 500 years in Europe and America, are arranged in three sections: the Aldine press after Aldus; private Aldine collections in early modern Europe; and Aldine book trade and collecting from the nineteenth century to the present. Also included in the volume is a catalogue of the exhibition 'Collecting the Renaissance: The Aldine Press (1494-1598)', organized in conjunction with the colloquium and displayed in the Treasures Galley of the British Library. Addressing a wide readership of scholars, booksellers and collectors, The Afterlife of Aldus aims to stimulate further research in areas which have not been sufficiently investigated, despite their importance for a comprehensive understanding of the long-lasting fortuna of Aldus and his publications. The conference, the exhibition and this volume have received generous financial support from the Bibliographical Society, CERL and Bernard Quartich Ltd.

Author : Stanley Morison
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 1973-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521200431

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Stanley Morison provided the impetus and judgement behind the programme of typographical revival carried through by the Monotype Corporation in the 1920s and early 1930s. The Tally is an account, historical, critical and functional, of the types cut under Morison's direction during this period.

Author : Aldus Manutius
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674971639

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Aldus Manutius (c. 1451 1515) was the most important scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. His Aldine Press was responsible for more first editions of classical literature, philosophy, and science than any other publisher before or since. This volume presents Aldus s prefaces to Latin classics and modern humanist writers, translated into English."