Thucydides, Sophocles and Herodotus followed in 1502 Xenophon's Hellenics and Euripides in 1503 Demosthenes in 1504. Nine comedies of Aristophanes appeared in 1498. Four more volumes completed the work in 1497-98. In 1495 he issued the first volume of his Aristotle. His own industry and energy were unremitting. Not counting the craftsmen employed in merely manual labor, Aldus entertained as many as thirty of these Greek assistants in his family. Greeks from Crete collated manuscripts, read proofs, and gave models of calligraphy for casts of Greek type. The prefaces to his editions were written in Greek. Instructions to typesetters and binders were given in Greek.

His trade was carried on by Greeks, and Greek was the language of his household.

These have no date but they are the earliest tracts Aldus printed, calling them 'Precursors of the Greek Library'.Īt Venice Aldus gathered an army of Greek scholars and compositors around him. He settled there in 1490, printing editions of the Hero and Leander of Musaeus, the Galeomyomachia, and the Greek Psalter. He selected Venice as the most appropriate station for his labors. It was Aldus's ambition to secure the literature of Greece from further accident by committing its chief masterpieces to type. The Pio family later financed Aldus's grand publishing house. Before Pico removed to Florence, he procured for Aldus the post of tutor to his nephews Alberto and Lionello Pio, princes of Carpi. In 1482 he went to reside with his friend Giovanni Pico at Mirandola, where for two years he continued his study of Greek literature. He received a scholar's training, studying Latin at Rome under Gasparo da Verona, and Greek at Ferrara under Guarino da Verona. Executive summary: Founder of Aldine PressĪldus Manutius, called Aldo Manuzio, the founder of the Aldine press, was born in 1450 in the village of Bassiano, located outside Rome.

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