Aldo Manuzio : Renaissance in Venice /

The catalog of the Aldo Manutiu exhibition, 500 years after his death, is a tribute to the most famous printer in the history of publishing. It tells how the book changed the world and how and why this change happened in Venice, cosmopolitan city and gateway between East and West. But it is mainly a...

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Other Authors:	Beltramini, Guido (Curator, Editor), Gasparotto, Davide (Curator, Editor), Manieri Elia, Giulio (Curator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English, translated from the original Italian.
Published:	Venezia : Marsilio, 2016.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Manuzio, Aldo, > 1449 or 1450-1515 > Exhibitions. Printing > Italy > Venice > History > 16th century > Exhibitions. Printing, Greek > Italy > Venice > History > 16th century > Exhibitions. Printing > Italy > Venice > History > Origin and antecedents > Exhibitions. Early printed books > Italy > Venice > 16th century > Exhibitions. Renaissance > Italy > Venice > Exhibitions. Art, Renaissance > Italy > Venice > Exhibitions. Imprimerie > Italie > Venise > Histoire > 16e siècle > Expositions. Imprimerie grecque > Italie > Venise > Histoire > 16e siècle > Expositions. Imprimerie > Italie > Venise > Histoire > Origines et antécédents > Expositions. Livres anciens > Italie > Venise > 16e siècle > Expositions. Renaissance > Italie > Venise > Expositions. Art de la Renaissance > Italie > Venise > Expositions. Manuzio, Aldo, > 1449 or 1450-1515. Art, Renaissance. Early printed books. Printing. Printing, Greek. Printing > Origin and antecedents. Renaissance. Italy > Venice. Manuzio, Aldo Pio > 1450-1515 Buchdruck 1500-1599 Exhibition catalogues. exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs. History. Catalogues d'exposition.
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Table of Contents:

Aldus Manutius and Venetian humanism / Cesare de Michelis
The new language of architecture at the times of Aldus / Guido Beltramini
Venetian sculpture amidst devotion to the ancient and the "modern manner" / Matteo Ceriana
The advent of the Quadro : domestic paintings in Manutius' Venice / Davide Gasparotto
Aldus Manutius and the book as artefact / Laura Nuvoloni, Stephen Parkin, Paolo Sachet
The art of the book : Manutius and the illustrated book in Venice between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Federica Toniolo
Printmaking in Venice at the time of Manutius / David Landau
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the eroticised dream-romance printed by Aldus Manutius / Helena K. Szépe
Aldus Manutius : from Bassiano to Venice / Mario Infelise
I. From Rome to Venice : Manutius' enterprise and impresa
II. Manutius and the Greek legacy
III. The strife of love in a dream
IV. Domestic classics
V. All'antica devotion
VI. Rediscovering country life
VII. Modern classics
VIII. Divine proportions.