Aldus Manutius biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Aldus Manutius

Author Name:

Aldus Manutius

Born As:

Teobaldo Mannucci

Other Names:

Born:

1449

Died:

6 Feb 1515




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Founder of the Aldine Press.

It was Manutius' ambition to secure the literature of Greece from further loss by committing its chief masterpieces to type.                          
Wife Maria Torresano

Aldus Manutius the Elder, to distinguish him from his grandson.                          
                           
Italic:

Relating to Italy or to its people.

Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.

Aldus: a typeface created by Hermann Zapf and named after Aldus Manutius.

Aldus: a software company named after Manutius that created PageMaker for the Apple Macintosh.