The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . lliantand original project of establishing a Greek press atVenice. The funds for this great undertaking weresupplied by his former pupil, Alberto Pio. Betweenthe years 1494 and 1515 thirty-three first editions ofall the greatest Greek authors were issued from the Al-dine press. Alduss house became a gathering-placefor the learned Greek scholars of the time. The menemployed by him in his work were almost all Greeks,and the prefaces to his great
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . lliantand original project of establishing a Greek press atVenice. The funds for this great undertaking weresupplied by his former pupil, Alberto Pio. Betweenthe years 1494 and 1515 thirty-three first editions ofall the greatest Greek authors were issued from the Al-dine press. Alduss house became a gathering-placefor the learned Greek scholars of the time. The menemployed by him in his work were almost all Greeks,and the prefaces to his great editions were almost al-ways written in Greek. Alduss aim was to publishthe best possible books at the lowest possible type used for his great library of Greek, Latin, andItahan authors, begun in 1501, was the italic, knownas the Aldine, and said to have been adapted from thehandwriting of Petrarch. It was cut by Francesco daBologna, and had already been used (for the firsttime) in the edition of Virgil published in 1500. In1493, or before that, the Hero and Leander ofMusaeus was published. This was followed by the MANZONI 634 MANZONI. famous first edition of Aristotle, the first volume ap-pearing in 1495, and the remaining four volumes in1497 and 1498. The work was dedicated by Aldusto his patron, Alberto Pio. In 1499 Aldus married the daughter of Andrea Tor-resano, of Asola, a Venetian printer. The two print-ing establishments were then combined and after that date the names ofAldus and Asolanusappeared on thetitle-pages of worksfrom the A1 d i n ePress. The deviceadopted by Aldusfor the title-pages ofhis publications wasthe dolphin andanchor, with themotto, the next fewyears first editionsof Aristophanes,Thucydides, Soph-ocles, Herodotus,Xenophon, Euripi-Aldtjs Manutius (jeg^ Demosthenes, Plato, Pindar, and others were produced at Venice. Be-sides these Greek authors, many Latin and Italian pub-lications were put forth. In 1508 the great Dutchs
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