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Konrad Sweynheym
German printer (b. Mainz, d. 1477, Rome), who left Mainz with Arnold Pannartz to establish Italy's first printing press, in the monastery of St. Scholastica at Subiaco. There, they published three books, Cicero's De Oratore, the Opera of Lactantius, and St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei. In 1467, they set up a press in the De Massimi palace in Rome, from where they published 50 more books. Sweynheym is also spelled Sweynheim in some publications. Revivals of their faces, blends between humanist and blackletter, include the Subiaco font done by Ashendene Press in 1902. More recently, an almost exact copy of their types was digitized by Shane Brandes as SweynheymPannartz (2010). Nicholas Fabian on Sweynheym. An Italian Antiqua from 1465. |
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file name: Sweynheim Pannartz Italian Antiqua 1465
file name: Shane Brandes Sweynheym Pannartz 2010
file name: Shane Brandes Sweynheym Pannartz 2010b
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