Italic.
The sloping characters—distinct from roman types— invented by Aldus Manutius, a Ventian printer.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.
The sloping characters—distinct from roman types— invented by Aldus Manutius, a Ventian printer.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.