====== Renaissance Print Culture: An Aldine Quincentennial Symposium ======
**History of the Book Lecture**


**7 February 2015**, Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies (60 West Walton St, Chicago IL 60610)



The scholar Leonard R. N. Ashley has described Aldus Manutius thusly: “**Tutor** to princes (to whom he communicated his humanistic principles), boon to scholars (for whom he printed valuable texts in careful editions which they could afford to buy), himself a student and an associate of great **humanists** such as Linacre and **Erasmus**, Aldus Manutius (1450-1515) was one of the great men of his time, inheritor (as a classical scholar in his own right) and **transmitter** (as the founder of the Aldine Press carried on by his son and grandson) of the riches which made the Renaissance splendid.”
February 2015 will mark the five-hundredth anniversary of the death of this Venetian **pioneer of printing**. Aldus, arguably the greatest printer of his age, certainly remains the one whose name is best known.This symposium aims to bring the fruits of **recent research** in the history of printing to a **broad public**.


**Speakers**: Brian Richardson (keynote address), Adam Hooks, Elizabeth Horodowich, Mark Peterson, Kevin Stevens.


Free admission, but limited space requires registration in advance.

For **registration**, click on this link: http://www.newberry.org/renaissance-center-program-registration

The **full programme** is available at: http://www.newberry.org/02072015-renaissance-print-culture


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