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- Title
- Libro di M. Giouambattista Palatino cittadino romano
- Description
- The typeface Palatina, designed by Hermann Zapf, was named in honor of the author of this writing manual Giovanni Battista Palatino (1515-circa 1575). A professional calligrapher, Palatino's instuctional book illustrates different scripts of the time, such as mercantile, chancery, and gothic cursive, and how they vary across regions and countries. Different alphabets, such as Chaldean, Hebrew, and Greek, are also depicted. "Sonetti figurati," rebus puzzles in which pictures represent words in the sonnets below, as well as text on ciphers and cryptography and recipes for ink, also appear in the volume.
- Call Number (click link to view in library catalog)
- 745.6 P17ℓ1545
- See Also
- Full Text Located at HathiTrust
- Authors
- Palatino, Giovanni Battista
- Full Title
- Libro di M. Giouambattista Palatino cittadino romano: nelqual s'insegna à scriuer ogni sorte lettera, antica & moderna, di qualun que natione, con le sue regole, & misure, & essempi: et con vn breue et vtil discorso de le cifre.
- Date
- 1550
- From the Exhibit
- Building a Library: Social Life and Customs
- Publisher
- Per Antonio Blado asolano
- Location
- Rome
- Language
- Italian
- Rights
-
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- Text
- Edition
- Riueduto nuouamente, & corretto dal proprio autore
- Medium
- Book
- Bibliographic Citation
- Palatino, Giovanni Battista. Libro di M. Giouambattista Palatino...nelqual s'insegna à scriuer ogni sorte lettera, antica & moderna, di qualun que natione, con le sue regole, & misure, & essempi. In Rome in Campo di Fiore: Per Antonio Blado asolano, il mese d'ottobre 1550. Print.