Emphasis Would Be Lost Without Him

In the interest of saving face after that embarrasing Chalet disaster, we were digging around today and found a really good biography, as well as a handful of resourceful links, on Aldus Manutius, the publisher responsible for italics (it was actually Francesco Griffo who did all the work). And what luck, as this year marks the 510th anniversary of the release of the typeface, in a book by Roman scholar, Pietro Bempo, called De Aetna.

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