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Giambattista Bodoni by Valerie Lester, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Valerie Lester

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Giambattista Bodoni by Valerie Lester, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Giambattista Bodoni by Valerie Lester, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Giambattista Bodoni by Valerie Lester, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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This is the first English-language biography of the relentlessly ambitious and incomparably talented printer Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813). Born to a printing family in the small foothill town of Saluzzo, he left his comfortable life to travel to Rome in 1758 where he served as an apprentice of Cardinal Spinelli at the Propaganda Fide press. There, under the sponsorship of Ruggieri, his close friend, mentor, and protector, he learned all aspects of the printing craft. Even then, his real talent, indeed his genius, lay in type design and punchcutting, especially of the exotic foreign alphabets needed by the papal office to spread the faith. Bodoni's life changed when in 1768 at age 28 he was invited by the young Duke of Parma to abandon Rome for that very French city to establish and direct the ducal press. He remained in Parma, overseeing a vast variety of printing, some of it pedestrian, but much of it glorious. And all of it making use of the typefaces he personally designed and engraved. | Giambattista Bodoni by Valerie Lester, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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