January 15th, 2012

biblioguerilla:

scripts to learn in the new year, tools to learn them with.

in an application for a privilege to protect this, and three other books, [tagliente] pleaded: ‘i have invented, not without a great deal of labour and personal expense, a new way of printing every kind of letter than can be made by the living hand: not printing in the usual way but by a new method never used before in venice or her territory.’ … the printing of engraved plates of cursive handwriting, a claim also to be made by ludovico arrighi.

osley, luminario: an introduction to the italian writing-books of the 16th & 17th centuries.

tagliente, giovannantonio. lo presente libro insegna la vera arte delo excellente scrivere. (4to. venice, giovanantonio de nicolini da sabio, 1532/3.) an online version of the 1524 edition can be found here.

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