Alde the Old one
Aldo Manuzio , sometimes indicated by Aldus Manutius , Alde Manuce , Alde Old the or Aldo Manuce (francized in Alde Manusce ), was a editor and a Venetian Imprimeur (1449, Bassiano in the Marais Pontins - February 6th 1515, Venice).
Biography
In 1490, Manuce opens its Printing works Aldine with Venice. It made sure the support of Andrea Torresani, one of the Venetian editors most famous since the years 1480 and of which it will marry the girl in 1500. Torresani got the technical control likely to him to answer the genius of the tailor of punches bolonais Francisco Griffo. The impression in Greek represented the nightmare of the printers indeed: the perpetual variation of the accents, being able to transform whole with the whole the direction of a word, made necessary the possession of an important quantity of characters. Griffo engraved them with excellence. This control however represented a considerable cost and a financial bet. Manuce could associate with its project its former student Alberto Pio. The money was managed by largest Venetian Banque of the time, the Banque Agostino.
Of a considerable scholarship, filled of an enthusiastic admiration for the masterpieces Literary S of the Greece and Rome, Alde, like his/her son, Paul Manuce, sacrificed the advantages of reputation and fortune which they could owe only with their personal works, and devoted their whole life to draw the old writers from chaos where eight centuries of Barbarie had plunged them. Nonglad to tear off them with the destruction, they wanted to return them of a universal use, and endeavoured to reproduce them in forms which, making their acquisition less expensive, put them at the range of a very great number of readers. In 1501, wanting to reproduce the cursive manuscript writing, Manuce had recourse to the Italique, leaning characters invented by Griffo, called in the beginning Lettres Venetian, and named then Italiques, because they came from Italy. The surname of police force Garalde is made of gar- for Claude Garamond and - alde of Alde Manuce .
Manuce is the editor of the famous Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of FRA Francesco Colonna, published in 1499 and often indexed like one of the more beautiful books of the Renaissance.
He is the father of Paul Manuce and the grandfather of Alde the Young person.
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