. Mediæval and modern history . i; iff! 1111:1 1456. The art spread rapidly and before the dose of the fifteenthcentury presses were busy in every country of Europe—in thecity of Venice alone there were two hundred—multiplying bookswith a rapidity undreamed of by the patient copyists of the cloister. The most celebrated ofthe early printing houseswas that established atVenice by Aldus Manu-tius (1450-1515) andknown as the AldinePress. In the course ofa few years Aldus gave tothe appreciative scholarsof Europe an almost com-plete series of the Greekauthors and many Latinand Hebrew texts. Al-tog
. Mediæval and modern history . i; iff! 1111:1 1456. The art spread rapidly and before the dose of the fifteenthcentury presses were busy in every country of Europe—in thecity of Venice alone there were two hundred—multiplying bookswith a rapidity undreamed of by the patient copyists of the cloister. The most celebrated ofthe early printing houseswas that established atVenice by Aldus Manu-tius (1450-1515) andknown as the AldinePress. In the course ofa few years Aldus gave tothe appreciative scholarsof Europe an almost com-plete series of the Greekauthors and many Latinand Hebrew texts. Al-together he printed overa hundred works. Inquality of paper and inclearness and beauty oftype his editions havenever been surpassed. The work of the AldinePress at Venice, in con-nection of course withwhat was done by presses h^^-^ ^>^^^ IM f. \i i^rtH^^H^ls^^b Fig. 50. Case of Chained Books. (FromClarke, T/ie Care of Books) The case shown is preserved in the Chapter Library, Hertford, England. In some Hbraries this practice of chaining the books was kept up even in the eighteenth century of less note in other places, made complete the recovery of theclassical literatures, and by scattering broadcast throughout Eu-rope the works of the ancient authors rendered it impossible thatany part of them should ever again become lost to the world. 262. Humanism crosses the Alps. As early as the middle ofthe fifteenth century the German youths had begun to cross theAlps in order to study Greek at the feet of the masters there. Asthe type and representative of these young German humanists we §263] THE ARTISTIC REVIVAL 237 may name Reuchlin, who in 1482 journeyed to Italy and presentedhimself there before a celebrated teacher of Greek. As a test ofhisknowledge of the language he was given a passage from Thucydi-des to translate. The yo
Size: 1788px × 1398px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubje, booksubjectmiddleages
