Aldo Manuzio was born around 1449-1450 in Bassiano (province of Latina) in the duchy of Sermoneta, capital of the Caetani fiefdom. Between 1467 and 1475 he completed his humanistic studies in Rome, where he attended the lectures of Domizio Calderini, close to Cardinal Bessarione, and was a pupil of Gaspare da Verona, a professor of rhetoric at the Sapienza University, who had already illustrated and recorded the novelty of the invention of printing in 1467, brought first to Subiaco and then to Rome by the two German prototypographers Sweynheim and Pannartz. After 1475 he moved to Ferrara, wher
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