Book that forms a work of art

At the very end of the 15th century, in Venice in December 1499, there emerged from the presses of that city’s most famous printer, Aldus Manutius, what is traditionally described as the most beautiful illustrated printed book of the Italian Renaissance.

In Francesco Colonna’s allegorical romance, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili… type, illustration, design …

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