Aldus Manutius the Younger
Aldus Manutius the Younger (born February 13, 1547 in Venice , † October 28, 1597 in Rome ) (also: Aldo Manuzio, Manuzzi or Manucci ) was the youngest son of the famous family of printers.
Life
At a young age he published Latin-Italian elegance. He studied the classical languages. He taught in Venice and was then professor of rhetoric in Bologna, Pisa and Rome.
After the death of his grandfather Aldus Manutius the Elder in 1515, his shop was continued first by relatives, then by his father Paulus Manutius . When he was appointed head of the papal printing press in the Vatican in 1561 , his son Aldus (the younger) took over the publishing house in Venice. His father's printing works fell into disrepair under his leadership. Even as a teacher, he was not very popular, so he was forced to sell the valuable library of eighty thousand volumes he had inherited in order to ensure his livelihood.
In 1566, Manutius the Younger presented a system of punctuation marks, consistently applied in Antiqua , the typesetting for Latin texts. Like his grandfather, he had a basic understanding of punctuation marks as syntactic structural symbols and was the first to use the comma systematically and consistently. Your punctuation was exemplary. Today their ideas have essentially been adopted. Until then, the purpose of punctuation was to give indications of tone of voice and pauses in breathing when reading aloud from books. Aldus Manutius the Younger stated in 1566 that the main purpose of punctuation was to bring clarity to the syntax.
In 1590 he was called to Rome, where he headed the Vatican printing works under Pope Clement VIII and died in 1597 without heirs.
As a humanist, he made a special effort to learn the national language.
When the publishing house was closed after his death, the works of the most important ancient authors and thus the Classical Greek intellectual world were finally saved for posterity.
Works
- Eleganze, insieme con la copia della lingua toscana e latina, 1558, also 1559, 1580, etc .;
- Orthographiae ratio, collecta ex libris antiquis, 1561, also 1566; Extract from it: Epitome orthographiae, 1575;
- Discorso intorno all 'eccellenza delle repubbliche, 1572 (also Latin translation of the same);
- Locuzioni delle epistole di Cicerone, 1575;
- De Quaestis per epistolam libri III, 1576;
- Il perfetto Gentil-Uomo, 1584; XXV discorsi politici sopra Livio, 1601; in addition, comments on Sallust , the poetics of Horace, etc. a.
literature
- Emilio Russo: MANUZIO, Aldo, il Giovane. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 69: Mangiabotti – Marconi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2007.
- Manutius . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 17 : Lord Chamberlain - Mecklenburg . London 1911, section 3. Aldus Manutius, Junior , p. 625 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Works by and about Aldus Manutius the Younger in the German Digital Library
- Biography. Philosophical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Checklist of Aldine Editions Owned by BYU Special Collections ( Memento of October 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin Lowry: Aldus Manutius and Benedetto Bordon. In search of a link. In: Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Vol. 66, No. 1, 1983.
- ↑ Period , period, comma, line - To history u. Function of punctuation * - time travel through the history of punctuation ( Memento from June 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Lynne Truss: Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation ; London 2003
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Manutius, Aldus the Younger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Manuzio, Aldus the Younger; Manuzzi, Aldus the Younger; Manucci, Aldus the Younger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | youngest son of the Manutius family of printers |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1547 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1597 |
| Place of death | Rome |