Aldus Manutius
Renaissance publishing pioneer
Aldus Manutius was a Venetian printer and publisher of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
He established the Aldine Press, which produced elegant editions of Greek and Latin classics.
Manutius pioneered italic type and the pocket-sized book format, making literature portable and affordable.
His dolphin-and-anchor device became a famous printer's mark.
- ErasmusDutch Renaissance humanist
- incunabulaEarliest European printed books
- bookBound written work
- pressApply force downward
- movable typeReconfigurable printing components
italic · octavo · punchcutting · humanism · Johannes Gutenberg · dolphin · philology · Aristotle · colophon · type · anchor · ligatures · letterpress · printing · publisher · Venice · classics · typography
- 15th Century FiguresChristopher Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes Gutenberg, Joan of Arc, Isabella I
- HumanistsErasmus, Petrarch, Thomas More, secular humanists, Bertrand Russell
- printing historyprinting press, Gutenberg, typographers, Gutenberg press, block printing
- early printingmovable type, typography, incunabula, folio, quarto
- Print Workersprinter, pressman, compositor, typesetter, bookbinder
- Renaissance Printers
Aldus Manutiusiconoclast
Attacker of cherished beliefs
manual, manually, manuals, manuscript, manuscripts, manufacture, manufactured, manufacturer, manufacturing