Aldus Manutius

(redirected from Aldus Manutius the Elder)
Also found in: Encyclopedia.
Related to Aldus Manutius the Elder: Aldo Manuzio

Al·dus Ma·nu·tius

 (ôl′dəs mə-no͞o′shəs, -shē-əs, -nyo͞o′-, ŏl′-)
See Aldus Manutius.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Aldus Manutius

(ˈɔːldəs məˈnjuːʃɪəs)
n
(Biography) 1450–1515, Italian printer, noted for his fine editions of the classics. He introduced italic type
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

Ma•nu•ti•us

(məˈnu ʃi əs, -ˈnyu-)

n.
Aldus (Teobaldo Mannucci or Manuzio), 1450–1515, Italian printer and classical scholar.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
That man was Aldus Manutius the Elder (1450-1515) and I will happily admit I hadn't heard of him until about a year ago, but am now absolutely kicking myself that I never volunteered to have his babies." Eats, Shoots & Leaves (The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation) by Lynne Truss
Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Although fragments of Pindar's poems in all of the classical choral forms are extant, it is the collection of four books of epinicion odes that has influenced poets of the Western world since their publication by Aldus Manutius the Elder in 1513.
Pindaric ode

Dictionary browser ?
Full browser ?