Few printers have contributed as much to the advancement of the humanist book as Aldus Manutius (c. 1451 - 1515). His family press was active in Venice, Bologna and Rome for over a century, from 1494 to 1598. Its publications have been collected and studied up to the present day as milestones in the development of Western civilisation. Manutius Network 2015 is a website dedicated to the events for the celebrations of the fifth centenary of Aldus’s death. The aim is to provide a comprehensive picture of the conferences, seminars and exhibitions in honour of Aldus, the Aldine press and its books taking place throughout the world. Organisers are warmly invited to share details of their events and seize the opportunity for publicizing them and for collaborating with colleagues across the globe. The project is developed under the auspices of the CERL.
Surf the Manutius Network 2015 by clicking on the single events in the calendar below.
| List of Aldine Events | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conferences, Workshops and Lectures | ||||
| The Afterlife of Aldus: Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book Trade | 6 February 2015 | Warburg Institute | London | |
| Apertura Anno Manuziano | 6 February 2015 | Palazzo and Biblioteca Comunale | Bassiano | |
| Ex aedibus Aldi | 6 February 2015 | Library of Ivan Franko National University | Lviv | |
| Printing, Sculpture, and the Hypnerotomachia | 6 February 2015 | Bodleian Library | Oxford | |
| Renaissance Print Culture: An Aldine Quincentennial Symposium | 7 February 2015 | Newberry Centre for Renaissance Studies | Chicago | |
| The Printed Achievement of Aldus Manutius | 7 February 2015 | All Souls College | Oxford | |
| Aldo Manuzio e la costruzione del mito | 26-28 February 2015 | Università Ca’ Foscari/Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana | Venice | |
| The Illustrated Body: Printing, Anatomy, and Art in the Renaissance | 27-28 February 2015 | UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | Los Angeles | |
| L'Ancora e il Delfino: un seminario internazionale su Aldo Manuzio | 18 March 2015 | Università Cattolica/Biblioteca Ambrosiana | Milan | |
| Aldine Symposium | 7 April 2015 | Grolier Club | New York | |
| Manuzio en España | 10 April 2015 | Universidad Complutense/Biblioteca Histórica | Madrid | |
| Per Aldo: edizione straordinaria de Le Cattedre Ambulanti di Charta | 17-19 April 2015 | Convento di San Francesco della Vigna | Venice | |
| Ciò che fece Aldo Manuzio: Inutilità, Inaccessibilità, Invisibilità (Open Lecture) | 11 May 2015 | Università degli Studi di Verona | Verona | |
| Questioni aperte su Aldo Manuzio (Workshop) | 12 May 2015 | Università degli Studi di Verona | Verona | |
| Aldus Manutius: From Incunabula to Modern Print (1494-1515) | 9 October 2015 | Uppsala University Library | Uppsala | |
| Aldo Manuzio, umanista, tipografo, editore: convegno di studi | 18 October 2015 | Teatro Nuovo | Mirandola, Modena | |
| Five Centuries Later: Culture, Typography and Philology in Aldus Manutius | 19 November 2015 | Biblioteca Ambrosiana | Milan | |
| Turning the Page: Bibliographical Innovation and the Legacy of Aldus Manutius | 26-27 November 2015 | University of Melbourne | Melbourne | |
| Aldus Manutius Humanist, Printer, and Philologist | 15 December 2015 | Palazzo del Capitanio | Padua | |
| Aldo al lettore: invito alla scoperta del mondo di Manuzio | Throughout 2015 | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana | Venice | |
| Le radici del libro | 27 February 2016 | Auditorium comunale | Bassiano | |
| Ancora per Aldo Manuzio ai margini del quinto centenario: contributi e ricerche interdisciplinari | 8-9 April 2016 | Convento di San Francesco della Vigna | Venice | |
| Exhibitions and Other Events | ||||
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| Collecting the Renaissance: The Aldine Press (1494–1598) | 31 October 2014 – 25 January 2015 | Treasure Gallery, British Library | London | |
| Aldo alla Biblioteca di Via Senato | December 2014 - January 2015 | Biblioteca di Via Senato | Milano | |
| Aldus Manutius: Scholar-printer of the Italian Renaissance | 7 January – 13 February 2015 | Winchester College | Winchester | |
| Aldus Manutius: The Struggle and the Dream | 8 January – 22 February 2015 | Bodleian Library (Proscholium) | Oxford | |
| Celebrating the Work of Aldus Manutius | 14 January – April 2015 | University of Glasgow Library | Glasgow | |
| Aldus Manutius: Scholar, Printer, Innovator | 15 January – 28 February 2015 | Harold B. Lee Library | Provo UT | |
| Aldus Manutius and his Legacy | 16 January - 15 March 2015 | Senate House Library | London | |
| Merchants of Print: From Venice to Manchester | 29 January – 21 June 2015 | John Rylands Library | Manchester | |
| Aldus Manutius: A humanist printer for humanist readers | 6 February – 7 March 2015 | Cambridge University Library | Cambridge | |
| 500 años sin Aldo Manuzio: mercaderes en el templo de la literatura | 10 February – 19 April 2015 | Biblioteca Nacional de España | Madrid | |
| Aldines at the Edward Worth Library | 17 February 2015 | Edward Worth Library | Dublin | |
| More Lasting Than Bronze: Five Hundred Years Since Aldus | 25 February – 25 April 2015 | The Grolier Club | New York | |
| I libri belli: Aldo Manuzio e la xilografia | 28 March – 14 June 2015 | Musei di Palazzo dei Pio | Carpi, Modena | |
| Festina lente: Aldo Manuzio in Oliveriana | 29 March - 31 May 2015 | Biblioteca Oliveriana | Pesaro | |
| Benedetto Bordon, a Life in the World of Books | 8 April 2015 | PrPh Rare Books | New York | |
| Aldus 500: Three Aldines from the Lund University Library and the Einar Hansen Collection | 25 May 2015 - 31 January 2016 | Lund University Library | Lund | |
| Aldus Manutius and the Renaissance Book: Early Printing in the Eton College Collections | 27 May - 16 December 2015 | Eton College | Windsor | |
| Aldine Editions at the Pan Biblioteka Gdańska | from June 2015 | Pan Biblioteka Gdańska | Gdańsk | |
| Aldo Manuzio dal folio al tascabile: gli ex libris narrano e illustrano | 20 June - 30 September 2015 | Museo delle Scritture | Bassiano | |
| Skynd dig langsomt! Den venetianske forlægger Aldus Manutius/Festina lente! The Venetian publisher Aldus Manutius | 2 July - 31 July 2015 | The Royal Library | Copenhagen | |
| Aldo Manuzio e il libro del Rinascimento tra produzione e collezionismo: Summer School 2015 | 31 August - 3 September 2015 | Residence Il Convento | Torrita di Siena, Siena | |
| Aldus at 500: Digitizing the Wosk-McDonald Aldine Collection at SFU | August 2015 | Simon Fraser Univeristy | Burnaby | |
| Subiaco 1465-2015 | 9 August – 31 October 2015 | Rocca Abbaziale | Subiaco | |
| I buoni libri: laboratorio di tipografia dedicato ad Aldo Manuzio | 18 September 2015 | Palazzo Santa Margherita - Biblioteca Delfini | Modena | |
| Aldo Manuzio (ca 1450-1515): o inventor do itálico | 22 September - 31 December 2015 | National Library of Portugal | Lisbon | |
| The Genes of Aldo | 5 October - 19 November 2015 | Waseda University Library | Tokyo | |
| In aedibus "Cini": l'arte tipografica a Venezia ai tempi di Aldo Manuzio | 21 October - 29 November 2015 | Fondazione Cini | Venice | |
| Nel segno di Aldo: le edizioni di Aldo Manuzio nella Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna | 30 October 2015 - 16 January 2016 | Biblioteca Universitaria | Bologna | |
| Una storia di carattere: Aldo Manuzio (1515-2015) | Summer 2015 | Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione | Cornuda, Treviso | |
| Aldo Manuzio: dieci intermezzi tipografici: mostra virtuale | Online from 23 October | Biblioteca Marciana | Venice | |
| Aldus Manutius in Milan: A Virtual Exhibition | Online from 26 October | Biblioteca Trivulziana | Milan | |
| Le Aldine di Manuzio | 1 December 2015 - 28 February 2016 | Biblioteca Ambrosiana | Milan | |
| Sub anno domini 1465 ... In casa de' figliuoli di Aldo | 13 December 2015 - 31 January 2016 | Biblioteca Comunale | Bagnacavallo, Ravenna | |
| Il sogno di Aldo: umanesimo e stampa nell'officina di Manuzio | 18 December 2015 - 29 February 2016 | Biblioteca Nazionale | Naples | |
| Aldo Manuzio: il rinascimento di Venezia | 19 March 2016 - 19 June 2016 | Gallerie dell'Accademia | Venice | |
| The Greek editions of Aldus Manutius and his Greek collaborators | 17 September 2016 - 24 October 2016 | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana | Venice | |
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