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Bartolomeo Sanvito

Bartolomeo Sanvito (1435-1518) was a scribe from Padua, Italy, who was trained in Rome. A master of the humanist italic script, his style is characterized by wquare capital letters alternating colored and gold.

Books on Sanvito include Bartolomeo Sanvito: the Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe (A.C. de la Mare and Laura Nuvoloni, Paris: Association internationala de Bibliophilie, 2009) and The Script of Humanism: Some Aspects of Humanistic Script 1460---1560 (James Wardrop: Oxford University Press, 1963).

Many digital typefaces were modeled or named after Sanvito. These include

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file name: Robert Slimbach Sanvito Pro 1993


file name: Robert Slimbach Sanvito Pro 1993b


file name: Robert Slimbach Sanvito Pro 1993c


file name: Robert Slimbach Sanvito Pro Display Semibold 1993


file name: Klaus Peter Schaeffel 1475 Humanistica Cursiva 2005


file name: Klaus Peter Schaeffel 1480 Humanistica 2010







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