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jan 14, 1470 - 1470 Nicolas JENSON set up business (press) in VENICE

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Nicolas Jenson, who had learned printing in Germany and set up business in Venice at about the time the von Speyer monopoly ran out. An excellent idealization of the roman typeform, Jenson’s type was cut for an edition of Cicero’s Epistolae ad Brutum, printed in 1470

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jan 14, 1470
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~ 557 years ago

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