Figure 107

Italic in Nannini’s Considerationi Civili, Venice

From a copy in Harvard College Library (facsimile), HathiTrust (scan)

1582

…Nannini’s Considerationi Civili on Guicciardini’s Istoria, published in Venice in 1582 (a very congested piece of work), also show how tasteless a book printed in italic had become when compared with similar early Italian books.

See chapter 13