Manutius
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The best bet is probably Aldus Manutius, a leading printer in late-15th-century Venice, where the center of printing innovation moved a decade after Gutenberg.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024
It first appeared in 1494, in a book published in Venice by Aldus Manutius.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019
The exhibition explores the ways, to this day, Manutius influences how we preserve and disseminate knowledge.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2015
Example: her paean to Aldus Manutius the Elder, the 15th century Venetian printer who invented italics and first used the semicolon and whose babies, says Truss, she wishes she could have had.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rise of printing in the 14th and 15th centuries meant that a standard system of punctuation was urgently required, and Aldus Manutius was the man to do it.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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