Greek printing by Aldus Manutius

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Aristophanes.[Commoediae novem]. Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1498.

Aldus, one of the most important scholarly printers of the period, used a rather awkward and cursive hand as his model for printing Greek. Although he did much to popularize Greek texts, his version of the alphabet was not ultimately successful.