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Urania

Type foundry in Milan, active in the early part of the 20th century. It grew out of G. Commeretti in 1903. After absorbing many smaller foundries between 1903 and 1906 (notably, P.&F/ Albè (Milan), F. Negroni (Bologna), C. Redaelli (Milan), L. Wilmant (Milan), F. Fiazza (Milan), F. Rizzi (Milan), Cucco&Gariglio (Rome), Alessandri (Florence) and F. Zappa (Milan)), it became Italy's largest type foundry. It was headed by Alberto Lobetti-Bodoni (a descendant of Giambattista Bodoni) and Angelo Albè. Their typefaces include many versions of existing fonts, and a sprinkling of original fonts. Examples include Columbia (1909), based on Hermann Ihlenburg's Columbus (1890).

In 1908, the type scene in Italy was shaken by the merger, in one holding, of its two main typefoundries, Torino's Societa Nebiolo and Milan's Urania, into one new entity called Societa Augusta, now headed by Lazzaro Levi (who comes from the Nebiolo side) and Alberto Lobetti-Bodoni (from the Urania aisle).

I wonder if Urania is somehow related to the company that produced the lettering for the Urania typewriter in 1926.

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