"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

16 February 2022

Happy Birthday, Bodoni

Lucatelli, Portrait of Bodoni, 1806


Giambattista Bodoni was born on this day in 1740.

The Cooper Union's "A Critical Appreciation of Bodoni's Romans and Italics" ...


Valerie Lester is the author of the first English language biography of Giambattista Bodoni, the late 18th century Italian typographer, type-designer, compositor, printer, and publisher. Lester’s is an impressive feat of scholarship, both in her writing and research, and in the fact that she has made a book as lively and readable as it is impeccably researched. It contains some rarely-seen images of Bodoni’s work and is also beautifully designed and printed.  

She discusses ...

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