3795 x 2889 px | 32,1 x 24,5 cm | 12,7 x 9,6 inches | 300dpi
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Vintage illustration of pioneering Italian printer and publisher Aldus Manutius the Elder (standing far left of picture) showing proof pages done on his printing press. Manutius (c1449 - 1515) was a humanist scholar and teacher who founded the Aldine Press in Venice in the 1490s and became the leading printer and publisher of the Italian Renaissance. His legacy includes the invention of italic type and the introduction of processes that allowed widespread circulation of inexpensive books in small formats. The illustration, circa 1895 by Frederick Wilson, is entitled "The House of Aldus AD 1502" and depicts a scene in the printing house of Manutius in August 1502. Manutius is pictured to the far left showing proof pages of the first popular edition of Dante's Divine Comedy to Leonardo Loredan (the Doge of Venice) and his wife who are standing at the other end of the table on the right. Also present around the table are Pietro Bembo (the editor of the work), Francisco Francia (the designer and engraver of the type) and Alberto Pio, Prince of Carpi, who financed the edition. A page and gondolier are also present along with a printer's apprentice who is picking up stray proof sheets beneath the table while looking at a small patrician boy standing next to the Doge's wife. In the background on the opposite shoreline can be seen the 16th century Venetian skyline.
