Humanistic Script
Published • Nov 10, 2020
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Authors:
Teresa De Robertis
Abstract
This chapter surveys the origins of the Humanistic script in Italy during the late-fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, discussing how the Italian humanists consciously employed an older medieval script, the littera antiqua or Caroline minuscule, when copying manuscripts of Classical texts. It ...