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Aldine Press
Founded by humanist Aldus Manutius in Venice in 1494, the Aldine Press was famed for critically edited Greek and Latin classics, pioneered italic typ…
Timeline
- 1494–1498Venice · VeniceManutius set up a printing workshop in Venice, printed his first dated book in 1495, and successively issued critically edited Greek texts such as Aristotle, making the Aldine Press the core supplier of Greek classical texts in Europe.
- 1499–1501Venice · VeniceIn 1499 it printed the richly illustrated Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Italic appeared in woodcut inscriptions in 1500, and the 1501 octavo Virgil became the first book printed entirely in italic type, establishing the market format for pocket classics.
- 1515Venice · VeniceAfter Manutius died in 1515, the business continued under his family and the Torresani; italic and octavo formats were widely imitated by printing centers across Europe, and the Aldine edition became a byword for humanist reading texts.
Sources
- Aldus Manutius https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aldus-Manutius
- Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script and Type in the Fifteenth Century — Nicolas Barker (1992)