Mediaeval and modern history . Fig. 49. — A Block-Printed Page FROM THE BiBLIA PaUPERUM (From Lacroix) 264 THE RENAISSANCE letters was a Latin copy of the Bible issued from the press ofGutenberg and Faust at Mainz between the years 1454 and art spread rapidly and before the close of the fifteenth cen-tury presses were busy in every country of Europe — in the cityof Venice alone there were two hundred — multiplying books witha rapidity undreamed of by the patient copyists of the cloister. 290. The Aldine Press at Venice. — But it is merely the intro-duction of the new art into Italy th
Mediaeval and modern history . Fig. 49. — A Block-Printed Page FROM THE BiBLIA PaUPERUM (From Lacroix) 264 THE RENAISSANCE letters was a Latin copy of the Bible issued from the press ofGutenberg and Faust at Mainz between the years 1454 and art spread rapidly and before the close of the fifteenth cen-tury presses were busy in every country of Europe — in the cityof Venice alone there were two hundred — multiplying books witha rapidity undreamed of by the patient copyists of the cloister. 290. The Aldine Press at Venice. — But it is merely the intro-duction of the new art into Italy that especially concerns us Fig. 50. — The Printing of Books. {From £ar/y Venetian Printing) The little that our brief space will permit us to say on this subjectgathers about the name of Aldus Manutius (1450-1515), whoestablished at Venice a celebrated printing house, known as theAldine Press, the story of which forms one of the earliest andmost interesting chapters in the history of the new art in itsrelation to humanism. In the course of a few years Aldus had given to the apprecia-tive scholars of Europe an almost complete series of the Greekauthors. Besides these Greek editions he issued both Latin andHebrew texts. Altogether he printed over a hundred works. In HUMANISM CROSSES THE ALPS 265 quality of paper and in clearness and beauty of type his editionshave never been surpassed. The work of the Aldine Press at Venice, in connection of coursewith what was done by presses of less note in other places, madecomplete the recovery of the classical literatures, and by scatteringbroadcast throughoutEurope the w
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