the printing-press visionary Johannes Gutenberg, is. Yet by all accounts Manutius (1455-1515) was the greatest Venetian scholar-printer of the Italian Renaissance. He brought “portable” books ...

A rare and extensive library of Renaissance ... Aldine Press to come to the market in a century, according to Sotheby’s. Established in Venice in the late 1400s, the printing operation is ...

Indeed, he argues that “three of the most significant events of the entire Renaissance era [took] place north of the Alps.” These were Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press ...