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Article: Aldus Manutius: Printer and Publisher of Renaissance Venice.
- Article from:
- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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The year 1995 was a big one in Aldine studies, for this was the five-hundredth anniversary of the first dated book to be published by the most famous printer of the Italian Renaissance. The quincentennial has been marked by several exhibitions whose catalogues make noteworthy contributions to Aldine scholarship: Susy Marcon and Marino Zorzi, Aldo Manuzio e l'ambiente veneziano, 1494-1515 (Venice, 1994), the catalogue of the exhibition at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana; Robert G. Babcock and Mark L. Sosower, Learning from the Greeks: An Exhibition Commemorating the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the Aldine Press (New Haven, 1994); Luciana Bigliazzi, Angela ...
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