Summary: This volume presents six papers from a one-day colloquium held at the Warburg Institute in February 2015 on the legacy of Aldus Manutius, marking the 500th anniversary of his death, together with three additional contributions. Rather than examining Aldus’s own output, the nine papers focus on how the notion of ‘Aldine books’ has changed over 500 years in Europe and North America, from the early days of the Aldine press to modern and contemporary book collecting and the antiquarian trade. The volume also includes a catalogue of the exhibition ‘Collecting the Renaissance: The Aldine Press (1494–1598)’, held in the British Library in conjunction with the colloquium. Addressing a wide readership of scholars, booksellers and collectors, The Afterlife of Aldus aims to stimulate further research on areas fundamental for understanding Aldus’s long-lasting fortuna.

Contents: From the Printer's Mind to the Author's Hand: Paolo Manuzio and His Tre libri di lettere volgari (1556-1560), Lodovica Braida ; Strategies and Failures of a Renaissance Publishing Venture: The Accademia Veneziana and the Myth of Aldus, Shanti Graheli ; The End of the Manutius Dynasty (1597), Angela Nuovo ; Five Centuries of Aldine Collecting in Italy: Known and Less-Known Cases, Luca Rivali ; Aldine Editions in Early Modern France, Shanti Graheli ; Aldine Collecting and Aristocratic Values in French Bibliophily Before and After the French Revolution, Francois Dupuigrenet Desroussilles and Jean Viardot ; Selling Aldus in the UK (c. 1630-2015): Towards a Checklist of British Sale Catalogues of Books Published by the Manuzio Family, Paolo Sachet ; The Aldine in British Book Trade History: A Look at Three Major Collections, Nicholas Poole-Wilson ; Aldine Tributaries Collecting Aldus Manutius in the 21st Century, G. Scott Clemons ; Collecting the Renaissance: The Aldine Press (1494-1598): Catalogue of an Exhibition, Jill Kraye, Stephen Parkin and Paolo Sachet. (Warburg Institute Colloquia, 32)

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