The Greek Classics.
Aldus Manutius. Ed. and trans. N. G. Wilson. I Tatti Renaissance Library 70. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. xvii + 396 pp. $29.95.
Abstract:In a prefatory note to this volume, general editor James Hankins introduces a new "subseries" of the I Tatti Renaissance Library in the history of the book. The dedicatory prefaces of Aldus Manutius, "the greatest scholar-printer of the Renaissance," were the natural place to start. Indeed, when Raphael Hythlodaeus and his companions introduced the Utopians both to ancient literature and the art of printing, it was, so Thomas More tells us, with the Aldine editions of the Greek classics: Aristotle, Theophrastu… Show more
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