Francesco Griffo (1450–1518), also called Francesco da Bologna, was a fifteenth-century Italian punchcutter. He worked for Aldus Manutius, designing the printer's more important humanist typefaces, including the first italic type. He cut Roman, Greek, Hebrew and the first italic type. Aldus gives Griffo credit in the introduction of the Virgil of 1501. However, as Manutius had achieved a monopoly on italic printing and Greek publishing with the permission of the Venetian government, he had a falling-out with Griffo. Griffo then went to work for Gershom Soncino, whose family were Hebrew printers. It was with Soncino that Griffo's second italic type was cut in 1503. In 1516 he returned to Bologna where he began print publishing. In 1518 Griffo was charged with the murder of his son-in-law, who had been beaten to death with an iron bar. This is his last appearance in the historical record. He is presumed to have been executed.[1][2]
^Francesco Griffo da Bologna Fragments & glimpses : a compendium of information & opinions about his life and work. Vancouver: A Lone Press. 1999.
^Burnhill, Peter (2003). Types Spaces: in-house norms in the Typography of Aldus Manutius. London: Hyphen Press. ISBN 0-907259-19-7.
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with its regular or roman style based on a design cut around 1495 by FrancescoGriffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, sometimes generically called the...
typeface cut for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius by his punchcutter FrancescoGriffo in 1495, and are in what is now called the old-style of serif letter...
cut by FrancescoGriffo. 1495–1498 – Aldus Manutius publishes the Aldine Press edition of Aristotle in Venice. 1496: February – FrancescoGriffo cuts the...
Venice, 1501, and was practised by designer-printers Nicolas Jenson and FrancescoGriffo; roman type has helped establish the remarkable resistance to change...
typeface developed by Aldus Manutius in Venice, from punches cut by FrancescoGriffo and first used in 1500 for the small portable series of inexpensive...
readers" with the cursive typeface. Manutius commissioned the punchcutter FrancescoGriffo of Bologna to create the new typeface. The handwriting reproduced for...
on the "e", descend from an influential 1495 font cut by engraver FrancescoGriffo for printer Aldus Manutius, which became the inspiration for many typefaces...
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printing activity. Significant contributions came from Nicolas Jenson, FrancescoGriffo, Aldus Manutius, and other printers of late 15th-century Europe. Gutenberg's...
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leisure reading. Manutius' italic type was cut by his punchcutter FrancescoGriffo (who later, following a dispute with Manutius, claimed to have conceived...
closely based on traditional models such as those of Nicolas Jenson, FrancescoGriffo (a punchcutter who created the model for Aldine typefaces), and Claude...
the literary events and publications of 1501. Italic type (cut by FrancescoGriffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in...
letters and ligatures. The Grecs du roi were influenced by types cut by FrancescoGriffo and used by printer Aldus Manutius in Venice. The types formed the...
first book printed in the old-style serif or humanist typeface cut by FrancescoGriffo (known from the 20th century as Bembo) and with early adoption of the...
first book printed in the old-style serif or humanist typeface cut by FrancescoGriffo (known from the 20th century as Bembo) and with early adoption of the...
improve upon the Humanistic font designs of Jenson's typefaces, hiring FrancescoGriffo to design and cut typefaces for his print editions of classical literature...
events and publications in the 16th century. 1501 Italic type (cut by FrancescoGriffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in...
supervision. Italic typeface. Designed in the early 1500 by the book-printer FrancescoGriffo. Infill: The earliest type of infill, called opus craticum by the Romans...
from the same sheet. The type was probably designed, cut, and cast by FrancescoGriffo and Jacomo Ungaro, both of whom were in Venice at the time. The collection...
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