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Image of a page from the 1501 edition of Vergil printed by the famous Venetian printed of the classics Aldus Manutius. Its clear, slanting italic typeface looks like the middle generation between Pomponio Leto's handwriting and modern Times New Roman italic.

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Image of a page from the 1501 edition of Vergil printed by the famous Venetian printed of the classics Aldus Manutius. Its clear, slanting italic typeface looks like the middle generation between Pomponio Leto's handwriting and modern Times New Roman italic.
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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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