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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago
Aldus Manutius (c1450–1515), teacher, scholar, founder of the Aldine press, Inventor of Italics, publisher of new copies of Plato, Aristotle, a friend to all books and libraries until the end of time https://t.co/9wdMYxpZgo
Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago
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Erasmus worked at Aldus's print shop for a few months and they became friends, maybe the two-man nexus of a wider publishing/literary scene, idk i gotta do more reading https://t.co/8QGs0BZTdn