Giovanni Antonio Tagliente

calligrapher

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    In calligraphy: The scripts of humanism (14th to 16th century)

    …simultaneously the Venetian writing master Giovanantonio Tagliente published Lo presente libro insegna la vera arte… (c. 1524; “This Book Teaches the True Art…”). Both books were printed from woodcuts that reproduced the writing of their authors; both promised results without the aid of a teacher; and both presented a cancelleresca

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