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Image of the handwriting of Renaissance scholar Pomopnio Leto, writing about the poet Lucretius. His handwriting looks very much like the italic (i.e. Italian) slightly slanting versions of modern typefaces like Times New Roman.

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Image of the handwriting of Renaissance scholar Pomopnio Leto, writing about the poet Lucretius. His handwriting looks very much like the italic (i.e. Italian) slightly slanting versions of modern typefaces like Times New Roman.
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Ada Palmer (adapalmer@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 16:43:06 JST Ada Palmer
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Compared w/ many historians, I work on the easiest possible old scripts. Why? My Italian Renaissance classicist dudes copied out the Cicero, Ovid etc. that Italian printers used to first print them, so their handwriting was the basis for the typefaces that evolved into Times New Roman & its ilk 2/?

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