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The Aldus Society Columbus, Ohio
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The Aldus Society Columbus, Ohio
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Who Was Aldus?
The printer's device of the dolphin and anchor is indelibly associated with the name of Aldus Manutius (1452-1515), Venetian printer of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. An innovative and progressive printer, Aldus is credited with the creation of italic type. His initiative to publish humanist texts in portable, octavo editions had a great influence on the democratization of book ownership and the dissemination of ideas. The Aldine Press became a gathering place for many of the great thinkers of the day and Erasmus referred to this print shop salon as a university without walls. The dolphin and anchor are the iconographic representation of the Renaissance motto, festina lente ("make haste slowly"), the anchor being slow and the dolphin haste, reflective of the detailed yet constant output of the Aldine Press. |
The Aldus
Society
P.O. Box 1150
Worthington, Ohio 43085-1150
Telephone: (614) 457-1153
For more information, e-mail us at RRavneberg@aol.com
Aldus members: to subscribe to our
listserv, The Aldus Society Forum,
please send an email to Emerson Gilbert at egilbert@rotundainc.com
