Aldus Manutius the Younger

Aldus Manutius the Younger ( born February 13, 1547 Venice, † October 28, 1597 in Rome) (also: Manuzio, Manuzzi or Manucci ) was the youngest son of the famous book printer family.

From a young age he published in Latin and Italian Eleganzen. He studied the classical languages ​​. He taught in Venice and was then a professor of rhetoric at Bologna, Pisa and Rome.

After the death of his grandfather, Aldus Manutius, the Elder, in 1515 the Offizin were first, then continued by relatives of his father Paolo. When Paul Manutius was appointed in 1561 to head the Pontifical printing office in the Vatican, took over his Aldus ( the Younger ), the publishing house in Venice. The paternal printing fell under his direction.

Even as a teacher, he had little inlet, so that he was forced to the inherited valuable library of eight thousand volumes for sale to ensure its upkeep.

In 1590 he was called to Rome, where he headed the Vatican printing under Pope Clement VIII in 1597 and erbenlos died.

As a humanist, he has taken particular care to a national linguistic scholarship.

When the officina was dissolved after his death, the works of the most important ancient authors and therefore the classical Greek spirit world were finally rescued for posterity.

Works

  • Elegance, insieme con la copia della lingua toscana e latina, 1558, also in 1559, 1580 et passim;
  • Orthographiae ratio, collecta ex libris antiquis, 1561, and 1566; Excerpt: Epitome orthographiae, 1575;
  • Discorso intorno all ' eccellenza delle Repubbliche, 1572 ( also Latin translation thereof);
  • Locuzioni delle epistole di Cicerone, 1575;
  • De Quaestis by epistolam libri III, 1576;
  • Il perfetto Gentil - Uomo, 1584; XXV discorsi politici sopra Livio, 1601; comments next to Sallust, on the poetry of Horace, among others
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