Figure 104
Italic used in Nogarola’s Dialogus, Gryphius, Venice
From HathiTrust (scan)
1552
Some Venetian books of the middle of the sixteenth century were printed entirely in an interesting form of italic, a page of which is reproduced from L. Nogarola’s Dialogus qui inscribitur Timotheus, sive de Nilo, printed by J. Gryphius for Vicenzo Valgrisi at Venice in 1552. Its calligraphic quality is remarkable, and it is also interesting because it employs italic capitals, and shows how far type-founders had departed from the Aldine character.