The Aldine Press 1495 – 1585 Two new books about the Aldine Press of Venice, written by Adam Mills, rare books specialist in Cambridge since 1980 Aldines at Harrow Aldines at Harrow, researched and A Discursive Catalogue compiled for Harrow School, is a discursive catalogue describing the hitherto overlooked Lionel Oliver Bigg Collection of 167 Aldine books held at The Old Speech Room Gallery, Harrow School. Printing & Publishing at
TheAdam AldineMills Press Printing & Publishing at The Aldine Press 1495–1585 is an extensive handbook that, uniquely, covers the complete 90-year history of the press and its activities, bringing together material otherwise scattered in many different sources.
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www.adammillsbooks.com Printing & Publishing at Printing & Publishing The Aldine Press at The Aldine Press 1495–1585 1495–1585 An Introductory Handbook to the Life & Work of Three Generations of the SETTING THE SCENE 1 The Aldine Press Manutius & Torresani Families 1495 – 1585 en for honesty Furthermore, Egnatio wrote, Aldus lived with the highest reputation among all m and scholarship ... Indeed, it is known that many important Adam Millsmen came to Venice just to greet and see this man, and also Introduction to shower him with gifts. Such an admirable city did not itself The Aldine Press is often considered one of the most draw these men to admire it, but the fame of one manet al,led In important presses in the history of publishing. AldusEditiones them here, a man who rallied men to(Angerhofer the best of his ability Manutius, who founded the press in Venice in 1495, was so that he might be able to pursue his program of restoring the first to succeed in resolving the apparently intractable the Latin and ). Greek language problems of Greek typography. The string of Aedibus Aldi (earliest printed editions) of the ancient Greek Introduction: Setting the Scene Principes anutius ajor editions writers, printed in the original Greek and issued by ldine Press The A ing Aldus, laid the enaissance foundations Europe. for theany These study significant m of Greek editions ost celebrated scholar- throughout R ith the m In a short 20-year publishing career, Aldus M e of his in Greek, in tandem w c.1451–1515, theenaissance, first and m succeeded in transform of the Latin classics issued by Aldus and by his successors, printer of the R umanists, rapidly established the Aldine Press as a dominant force the face of learning across Europe. By the tim in late 15th and early 16th century printing. death, he had established the Aldine Press, with its distinctive dolphin-&-anchor device, as the most famous In October 1507, Erasmus, the Prince of H Italy to take in The Manutius & Torresani Families and influential Renaissance printing house in the whole wrote to Aldus, then at the height of his career. of Europe, its publications uniting a web of leading I have often privately wished, most learned Manuzio, that humanist scholars that spanned out from literature in both Latin and Greek had brought as much Germany, Austria, Poland and Hungary, France, The profit to you as you for your part have conferred lustre upon Netherlands, Spain and England. it, not only by your skill, and by your type, which is EditoriallyI the Aldine texts were not only a byword as unmatched for elegance, but also by your intellectual gifts • Their business & family partnerships The Life & Workthe ofmost accurateAldus andost authoritative innovative Manutius and to typographicallydate, but were er- and uncommon scholarship; since so far as fame is concerned, son, Corres - it is quite certain that for all ages to come the name of Aldo printed in the m Manuzio will be on the lips(Mynors of every & person Thom who is initiated fashionable and stylish manner. ). into the rites of letters is The Aldine Greek types had proved the firstporaries, comm was pondence of Erasmus c.1451 –cially 1515 and aesthetically successful solution to the problems of cutting Greek letters. The Aldine Italic, the Aldus had established an unshakeable position as the pre- • Their lives & achievements in Venice & Rome first of its kind, and form astonishing for metal to types. contem The two new eminent Renaissance publisher of classical the Aldine texts. Press, H but Introductoryas based notSu only on the series of Greek an entirely new reputation w that issued from mmary Aldine Romans marked an advance on the earlier roman AEditiones Principesany major typographicalme, and gave innovations it a highly that ldus as Scholar, Pr lines,types to ofaid Jenson accurate and and remain thorough widely indexing used today. and cross- also on his m ruthless French 1495 – inter & Publ reference;Aldus’s andinnovative from the pocket-book development editions, of the curved as the most both enabled1515 his program i Fromadmired 1495 the and life distinctive of Aldus visualas a scholar, identity.at editor, for sherAmong the printer, classics, these the comma,sought-after to its further books development of the age, also into proved, the semi-colon. to Aldus’s cost, • Their principal published books and publisherradical innovations, was intense, Aldus’s innovative, introduction and highly to the pro printing - In addition,to be those Aldus most alsopetitors. subjectrevived to the piracy use of from introductory ductive.industry of the ,pocket-book would free books form from the confines of pre facesand that Italian served com both to flatter his influential ded - DespiteLibelli the pressures Portatiles of his new profession as a printer icatees, and to extol the superior qualities of his editions. and publisher,the library Aldus or also study, maintained and thus hischange personal the mannereducat -in Aldine Editions aster the technicale the pre-eminent intricacies of which literature could be read. Texts ional and humanist scholarly interests, publishing several The first to effectivelyreek,| 177 Aldus m becam ajor Greek texts, anists, Aldus and the Aldine Press ES editions ofWith his own a target Latin audience grammar, that as includedwell as preparing the intellectual eliteInterruptionsprinting –E the DEVIC result in G of wars, financial crises, and an edition of hisRenaissance Greek grammar,e hum a hub forand international also appending scholarship. to ‘thereIntradingE ALDIN difficultiesprinter-publisher – cost Aldus of four a series years of of m work, and his Aldine editionsrapidly hisbecam own learned treatises, |suchTHE as hisUSE OF THdivided his twenty-yeargrammars and publishing dictionaries careerenaissance that into would severalEurope. enable the study XXIII Editing, Type Design & Printing at the Aldine Press Orthographia 1515, immediately following the death of Aldus, hisdiscrete close periods.of Greek throughout R of 1502, hisCHAPTER extensive studyfriend of Horatian and editorialLife metrics of Ovid colleague of 1509. Egnatio asserted that Apud also 1502, and his Within the press,is no Aldus nation held in Europe, creative no control matter howofappeared both uncultured the in theor remote, Pedianus to of 1553, and the Ragazzoni of whom the name of Aldus is not well known and famous’ Apud Paulum publishing programme, Aldusand of Manutius typographic). design.1555, The which both carried colophons, and attributing the (Grant, dominance of his role was reflected in the name giveneditions to Paulusanutium, alone. Aldi These Filiumix read respectively to the undertaking, the Aldine Press. Paulum M • Aldine editing practices Financially, however, Aldus remained permanently Manutium,by far Aldi F. print attributing the edition to the minor partner. The experienced Venetian printerFinally, the device also appears on two editions issued in Andrea Torresani, who may have directed the everyday1559, the first with an im technicalities of printing and was later to become Aldus’sPaulus alone, and the second a reissueApud of the Aldi original Filios. By father-in-law, was one of two major financial stakehold-1552 Aldine edition of three speeches by Parisetti that ers. Pierfrancesco Barbarigo, the nephew and son of retained the old colophonde fact wordingo role as sole manager of the • Development of the Aldine typefaces two Doges of Venice, a silent partner who died in 1499, this late date Paulus’s was the other. Alberto Pio, the Prince of Carpi, Aldus’s press had already been clearly acknowledged. (See also former pupil, also played a detached but major role as a Devices A12, A16a & A19.) replaced patron and guarantor. – used 1554 Aldus Filii he Device B2a divided by the shank. T Innovat A copy of B2 but withAldus the words ions i . Aldus introducedn many Texts, innovations Ed to the world of with the single word • Evolution & processes of the printed book iting,Type & For device was used just once by Federico. FedericoTorresani Torresano in 1554 printing and publishing. These ranged from his choicemat of texts, both ancient Greek in the original Greek, and (in conjunction with device A13), together withice the contemporary works in Latin or the vernacular; to new colophon Appresso il nobile huomo M standards of editing appliedDevice to these B2 texts; from his B3 : The Second Large Wreath Devith a thick important new typefaces, Greek, Roman, and the unique – used 1554 –1566; & 1570 Aldine Italic; to the new pocket-book format introducedApud Aldi Device B3 for the - ThisLibelli device Portatiles was used on at least 60 editions between This is, like B1, a large oval device, but w of printing parallel or interleavedseries in 1501; texts; from to the new introduc- forms wreath that is now richly decorated with fruits. The Other Aspects of the Aldine Press tion of1546 printed and numbering 1556, mainly for withpages, the and colophon on occasion a press under the joint manage Filios, or its Italian equivalent. device was introduced during the period that saw the of Pietro Bembo, issued 1550–1551, carried official transition from The Letters ment of Paulus and, notionally, his brothers, to a press this same Aldine device on its final leaf, but had the For this chapter, see particularly Angerhofer managed by Paulus alone. Scotto device on its title-page. The book, unusually, was Intellect; Botley, ‘Learning Greek in Western Europe 1476 - 1516’; Cambridge UniversityFrom Library, about this period, the colophon was omitted produced by Paulus and The Sons of Aldus for a third print. More Lasting Than Bronze; et al, In Aedibus Aldi; from numerous Aldine books, many of which were now In The Renaissance;party, Renouard, Carlo Gualteruzzi, and is notable for Babcockan extended & Sasower, ith just an im • The Aldine Academy • Aldus’s European Contacts Davies, Aldus Manutius;Stampate in Vinegia per gli figliuoli published w colophon that lays out wide-rangingFletcher, privileges and Learning From The Greeks; Annales de L’Imprimeriettobre. MDL. des AdAlde;In instantiaPraise of Aldus di Messer Manutius; Lowry, sweeping prohibitions : Paulus Barker, and Staikos, Aldus Manutius; eenMercantile 1554 Empireand 1566. of the di Aldo nel Mese di O The Greek EditionsThe Theof Aldus Worlddevice M of Alduswas used Manutius;Clemens on at & least Fletcher, two-dozen editions Carlo Gualteruzzi, con Privilegio del sommo Pontefice, & della issued by Paulus betw Pettegree Legacy anutius. , The Book Illustrissima Signoria, & di tutti i Principi, nelle3 cui Terre. Carlo libri si stampano; che niuno possa queste Lettere stampare, ne • The Libelli Portatiles • The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili stampate vender ne loro luoghi fotto le pene, che in essi Privilegi si contengono; se non coloro, a quali dal predetto M espressamente fara cio ipermesso. Federico Torresan The device was also used on the Theophrastus of 1552reek and the multi-volume Aristotle issued between 1551 and • Aldine Special Copies • Privileges & Printed Cautions 1553. Federico Torresani, the uncleApud of PaulusAldi filios, and expensis his . brothers, financedere the colophons the printing read of both these G editions. H - nobilis viri Federici de Turrisanis eorum auunculi ained under the manage Paulus Until 1554 the press had rem role as sole manager of the press • Jean Grolier c.1489–1565 • Cicero in the Renaissance ment of Paulus and,de factonotionally, his brothers. From 1553,, is however, Paulus’s Aldus Filii had begun to be clearly acknowledged. Device B2, despite carrying the words in aedibus Pauli notable for appearing in the first book since c.1545 to credit Paulus as the printer. In the octavo St Gregory of Nyssa of August .1553 (Surprisingly, the colophon the earliest read run of books Manutii, Aldi filii The Aldine Devices in Latin published by The Sons of Aldus up to c.1545 had also occasionally carried imprints that had referred in the same way to Paulus as the printer.) anutium, The following edition, theVirgil Apudof August Paulum 1553, M was the Device B3 first to unequivocally attribute publication to Paulus alone, with a colophon that read Device B2 also • Origins & development of the Aldine dolphin-&-anchor Aldi Filium. Aldus Filii, Despite carrying the words • Evolution of Aldine devices, colophons & imprints • Detailed analysis of their use in Aldine books
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| CICERO EDITION NOTES 56 | BOOK NO. 27 See Book No. 28 for anotherfficiis &c,copy see of Bookthis edition. No. 26. For detailed notes on Cicero’s De O The Old Speech Room Gallery ion Book No. 27 Introduct The Seventh Aldine Edition, ofhich a total Renouard of 11 Aldine describes Cicero 1555 editions issued between 1517 and 1567, but the first to include the 42–page. Index, w De Officiis &c &c as ‘fort bien fait’ of 1539, Five Philosophical Works comprising The edition includes Paulus’s preface,Cose first de Turchiused in the On Moral Duties : Cato the Elder on Old 1541 Third Edition, which is addressed to Benedetto Introduction and 167 discursive entries detailing the Aldine Ramberti 1503–1546. Ramberti’s Age : Laelius on Friendship : The Six Stoic a description of his travels in Turkey, had been theanutius first Paradoxes : The Dream of Scipio extracted book to be published independently by Paulus and The Sons of Aldus on reopening the press following the from De Republica. With an Index closure in 1537 and the final division of the M | and Torresani families into two separate publishing books bequeathed in 1887 to Harrow School by Lionel | LIBRI TRES |; entities. See P&P, III : Torresanis pp.31–3; and P&P, IV : TITLE & IMPRINT Paulus pp.37–8. | PARADOXA CICERONIS DE OFFICIIS ition CATO MAIOR, VEL DE SENECTUTE : | Index The Ed | SOMNIUM SCIPIONIS, are in Latin not LAELIUS, VEL DE AMICITIA : The principal contents of this 1555Paradoxes Seventh Editionappear STOICORUM| SEXTOSEXIndexes : DE |REPUBLICA.praecipue scitu digna sunt, match those of the First and SecondThe Dream Aldine of Scipio Editions of ] | M D LV. and Oliver Bigg, an Old Harrovian. The collection includes four EX LIBRO 1517 and 1519,On Oldexcept Age that the rerum, & verborum,| quaecunque[ALDINE DEVICE Adam MillsGreek, and ith the additional Greek translations | accurate factus. CHRONO solely in Latin, w omitted. Chronology followsLOGIC the Ahmanson-MurphyanutiumA Aldi F. Catalogue e of the Apud Paulum M L INDEX 1541 edition, effectively the COLOPHON | The text follows that re-editeded thefor thesixth first volum time by VENETIIS, M.1502 D. LV. Paulus in 1541.1521 The new Greek Editiones Principes, and many Libelli Portatiles in Aldus’s Catullus &c ith Third Aldine CiceroEdition, form es between 1540 andotes DESCRIPTION Works of Catullus, Tibullus,Second AldineSallust Collected Edition of Letters Cicero’s to Atticus works, &c Lucan Propertius which PaulusLivy issued &c in 10 volum Catiline Conspiracy &c Seventh AldinearbledStatius Edition, paper boards, 8vo, laterwith halfPharsalia, manuscript vellum or wThetitling. Civil War 1546. For theSuetonius Collected Editions, seeHistory Further of Rome N : Decades vol 4 flexible m Valerius Maximus Silvae, Thebaid, Achilleidith pp.241–3.Cicero Lives of Twelve Caesars all version of the Device A15 on the title-page. Deeds & Sayings ice Rhetorical Works 1503 The Dev1522 revolutionary Greek and Roman italicised types. Euripides Printed in the First Aldine Italic types, and in the later Quintilian ith catchwords : with guide Device A15, a new variation of |the165 sm a press supposedly smaller 1504(?)Basel Italic types dating Seventeenfrom 1550 Tragedies : leaves volw 2 Asconius Institutes anutiusof Oratory brothers, signatures : with foliation : w device, was used principally in 1554 and 1555 during the Juvenal & Persius | PAULUS1523 MANUTIUSanagement Onof the Cicero’s M Orations letters in initial spaces. period of official transition from 1505 The Satires BOOK NO. 117 underCicero the jointanaged m by Paulus alone. Accordingly it is iptions InscrPontano anuscript marginalia, and with a page to a1527 press m Philosophical Works vol 2 With some faded m Urania & foundPerotto both in books that carriedP, a XXIII colophon : A15 that & A16. 1508 EDITION NOTESreferred to The Sons of Aldus, and in others, as here, that Each discursive catalogue entry of notes on the verso of leaf 127.icodamo,Varone, Also with a series Xerse, of Priscian Cornucopia Rhetoricianses at the foot of each recto of Leaves 2 to 67. ion referred to Paulus alone. See P& single nam rfeo, Isidoro,Greek NRhetoricians volIntroduct 1 Institutes of Grammar 1509(?) egramonte &c. 1528 These include O Celsus & Serenus HoraceBiasio, Ludovico, N Paulus published theREFERENCES First Aldine Edition of his com - mentary in 1556.Macrobius This Second & and final AldineBooks ofEdition Medicine 1513 Poems Renouard 1555 / 6 Book No.117Signed on verso of Leaf 48 of 1559 retains Paulus’sCensorinus preface addressedOn to AntonioCicero : Saturnalia Elio : Pontano Sartori [Savori ?] Hieronymus 1506–1576, the BishopAhmanson-Murphy of Pula (Pola in 490 Croatia),& Birthday and Book Isocrates 1533 e 20 kilometres south of Paulus Manutius 1559 Urania &c later Bishop of Capodistria (the modern-day coastal city • Provides full author, title, imprint and colophon details; Signed on verso of LeafOrations 113 Cicero In Orationem1514 CiceronisAlexander Bonicinii Pro [?]P. Sextio of Koper in Slovenia,Pontano som Rhetorical Works Scriptores Rusticae Trieste). Scriptores Rusticae Urania &c QuintilianFinal leaf signed and with note ia Veneta, to which in 1557 he Commentarius On Agriculture At this date Paulus was busy producingOn Agriculturebooks for the Sartori [?] HieronymusInstitutes essoof Oratory [?] supremo 1535 A Commentary1515 on Cicero’s Speech In newly establishedLactantius Academ & Lucretiusand with a further note by Sartori had been appointed both Professor of Eloquence and Defence of Publius Sestius arzo Tertullian Divine Institutes & describes each copy, its binding, bookplates and inscriptions Lucan Io [?] GerolamoOn The Sartori Nature [?] hoofThings adoperato [?] questoDirector Plinyof the the Press. Elder The overly ambitious Academy The Apology Gellius Cicerone Pharsalia, or The| Civil War collapsed and was wound up by the Venetian Senate in | 1536 Natural History part 2 Attic Nights 1561/2.arch 1734 In 1561 Paulus was to leaveily Veniceas Authors for Rome, &c, see TITLE,1516 & IMPRINT|l’annoIN ORATIONEMdi nostro salute| commentarius, [?] 1734 [?] di M Valla I Gerolamo Sartori [Savori ?] havewhere used o. inthis 681562 he begananutius work Fam as printer for theVatican. Ricchieri POLAE Pliny the Elder PAULI MANUTII| PROIn translation P. SEXTIO |: e, see Book.For notesN on the M Elegances of Latin Lucian Ancient] Readings| VENETIIS, Eustratius &c CICERONIS Cicero the year of our farewell [? or meeting ?] M Book No. 108. Natural History part 1 e AD ANTONIUM| [ ALDINEAELIUM, DEVICEShorter Dialogues 1517 For an inscription with a similar nam c.1537-45ice On Aristotle EPISCOPUM. • Highlights the salient bibliographical and edition points Perotto Cicero. TheStrozzi Dev M.Ausonius D. LIX. Cornucopia | Paulus used Device A19, an intermediate size, in som anutium, 1540 The Poems Martial The Works 30 titles between 1557 and 1563.ies See by P&P, Paulus XXIII o: A19.sep - COLOPHON Epigrams| Apud Paulum M Cicero mmentar 1518 icero Co Orations vol 1 AeschylusVENETIIS, M. D. LIX. 1541Other C entaries by Paulus CiceroPaulus retired from printing in 1570. In 1572 tw PontanoAldi F. Six Tragedies ent or Pliny the Younger Two Books of Love &c Ciceroarate editions of singleOrations Cicero vol comm 3ark Anthony; and the • Notes vellum, blue paper, or other special Aldine copies Mela,DESCRIPTION Solinus &c Ten Books of Letters 1542were issued, one printedPhilosophical by the AldineWorks Press in Venice on Cicero’s speech attacking M Livy Second Aldine Edition,On Chorography 8vo, early flexible parchm Barbaro other printed in Rome to onRoman Cicero’s citizenship speech inof 62Archias, BC in a 1519 paper boards with Historylater patterned of Rome :Decadespaper spine. vol 1 Ferrari On Porphyry ate blank leaf, and also the final leaf defence of the claim Statius On Cicero’s Philippics men- Lacks the penultim 1545 Greek-born poet. with com Cicero with the Aldine Silvae,device. Thebaid, Achilleid Ricci Orationes Livy On Moral Duties In 1578–1579 Aldus the Younger published a three- Device A19 on the title-page. 1546 On Imitation Pontano History of Rome : Decades vol 2 volume folio edition of Cicero’s • Discusses the Aldine device and imprint or colophon Scriptores HistoriaePrinted in Roman, Italic, & Greek types imported fromCicero taries by Paulus. This was reissued in 1583 with a new Prose Works vol 2 Cicero Plutarch France post-1550The Augustan : leaves History with signatures : with title-page to Orationsform part part of 1the 10-volume Third Aldine Terence Caesar catchwords Parallel: with foliation. Lives Collected EditionPhilosophical of Cicero’s Works works. Capece o. 115 Brutus. iptionsThe Gallic Wars &c For other CiceronianThe Comedies commentaries by Paulus, see Book 1520 Inscr On Origins Q. Curtius 1547 Nos. 110–114 Atticus; and N Front endpaper with notes in Italian, apparently ofPaulus dates Manutius Livy Alexander the Great AL NOTES or prices Asconius History of Rome : Decades vol 3 ADDITIONOn Cicero’s Atticus • Provides background notes on the author and title; notes 28th [?] On Cicero’s Orations 1548 icero’s Speech liuure [?] Calepino C 7 alli 8 Giugno per le stelle Cicero Cicero’sThe speechDictionaryportant in defence to survive of Sestius from inthe 56 long BC periodis one of soldi 25 per Ostie the Lettersmost im To Friends ark Antony of 44 BC. spanned by his Catiline speeches of 63 BC and his 249 and Second Philippic against M prefaces and sketches the Aldine cultural milieu of associated 20 l’ebdomad Publius Sestius, a Roman senator and close friend of 21 p[er] il pilgr [?] Carnico calze [?] Cicero, had been instrumental in securing Cicero’s recall 22 o per l’ebdomad : di D. Verone o per le 20 del Sig[no]r from exile in 57 BC. Sestius now stood charged with C< ... > public violence in the conduct of his role as Tribune. Cicero’s speech, in detailing the history of his own exile, Also with faint neat early inscription in bottom corner and discussing the role of a good citizen and the political editors and dedicatees Ex libris Signorett< ... > conditions required to guarantee a stable republic, stands Antoni Saladare < ... > as an important description of traditional republican < ………. > values and ethics as they were actually practised. Li 19 per< ... > In the event, Sestius was unanimously acquitted. In the Soldi 12 : < ... > later civil war, Sestius at first sided with Pompey, who ag : 29 was defeated and assassinated in 48 BC, before switching • Contextualises the edition within the Aldine programme and Rear endpaper with notes headed with his allegiance to Caesar. Prosopografia Pisonis < ... > M exclamatio pag : 37 subsiqu
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