Paulus Manutius

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Paulus Manutius
Born12 June 1512 Edit this on Wikidata
Venice Edit this on Wikidata
Died6 April 1574 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 61)
Rome Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationPublisher, typographer, Renaissance humanist Edit this on Wikidata
Parent(s)
FamilyAntonio Manuzio Edit this on Wikidata
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Logio Le epistole famig. di Cicerone
De gli elementi e di molti loro notabili effetti, 1557

Paulus Manutius (

humanist education, the third son of the famous printer Aldus Manutius and his wife Maria Torresano.[1]

Life

As a young man, Paulus Manutius moved to Venice to get an education and was well received by his father's old friends Pietro Bembo, Ramberto, and Egnatio.[1] During Paulus' education his grandfather, Andrea Torresani and two uncles, Frederick and Francesco, carried on the Aldine Press. Andrea Torresani died in October 1528 which brought disputes between Paulus and his uncles that halted the work of the press for four years. In 1533 Paulus assumed direction of his father's business. In that first year alone, the press issued eleven titles. From 1536 to 1539, Paulus was involved in a lawsuit against his uncles in an effort to reclaim his father's italic type. In 1539, Paulus won.[2]

Paulus was a passionate Ciceronian, and perhaps his chief contributions to scholarship are the corrected editions of

Philippics (Demosthenis orationes quattuor contra Philippum, 1549). Throughout his life he combined the occupations of a scholar and a printer. As a scholar he is remembered for four elegant Latin treatises on Roman antiquities. His correct editions of the classics, printed in a splendid style, were highly esteemed, yet sales did not always support such productions; in 1556 he received for a time external support from the Venetian Academy founded by Federigo Badoaro. But Badoaro failed disgracefully in 1559, and the academy was extinct in 1562.[2]
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Meanwhile, Paulus had established his brother, Antonio in a printing office and book shop at Bologna. Antonio died in 1559, having been a source of trouble and expense to Paulus during the last four years of his life. Other pecuniary embarrassments arose from a contract for supplying fish to Venice, into which Paulus had somewhat strangely entered with the government.[citation needed]

In Rome

In 1561,

Breviarium Romanum (1568). Ill-health, the commercial interests he had left behind at Venice, and the lack of interest shown by Pope Pius V, left Paulus ready to travel back to Venice in 1570, having spent nine years in Rome.[3]

Later years and death

On April 6, 1574, Paulus Manutius died at 61 and was buried at the Dominican Church of Rome.[1]

See also

Works

  • In epistolas Ciceronis ad Atticum, 1546.[4]
  • Commentarius in epistolas M. Tullii Ciceronis ad M. Junium Brutum, et ad Q. Ciceronem Fratrem, 1557.[4]
  • De gli elementi e di molti loro notabili effetti (in Italian). Venezia: Paolo Manuzio. 1557.
  • Ciceronis in M. Antonium, 1572.[4]
  • In Ciceronis orationem pro Archia poeta commentarius, 1572.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Goldsmid, Edmund (1887). Bibliotheca Curiosa: A Bibliographical Sketch of the Aldine Press at Venice. 3 Volumes. Edinburgh: Printed Privately.
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