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Updated: June 16, 2025
First, I show you a pair of Aldines, and, what is better, a pair editionum principum, the first Sophocles and the first Thucydides. Both have the proper attestation at the end that they come from the Aldi in Venice in the year 1502, the Thucydides in May, and the Sophocles in August; hence the former has not the Aldine anchor at the extreme end.
The Aldi, the Stephani, and Froben toiled by night and day, employing scores of scholars, men of supreme devotion and of mighty brain, whose work it was to ascertain the right reading of sentences, to accentuate, to punctuate, to commit to the press, and to place beyond the reach of monkish hatred or of envious time that everlasting solace of humanity which exists in the classics.
The order of its development is just this: Wealth; architecture; upholstery; painting; sculpture. Printing, as a mechanical art, just as Nicholas Jenson and the Aldi, who were scholars too, made Venice renowned for it. Journalism, which is the accident of business and crowded populations, in great perfection.
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