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ALDINE PRESS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 536 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ALDINE

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PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

PRESS , the

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PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

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OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office started by Aldus

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MANUTIUS

Manutius at the end of the 15th

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CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

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Venice, from which were issued the celebrated Aldine

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EDITIONS

editions of the

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CLASSICS

classics of that

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time . (See MANUTIUS.) The Aldine

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PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

Press is famous in the

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HISTORY

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TYPOGRAPHY (i.e. writing by types)

typography (q.v.), among other things, for the introduction of italics .

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