Figure 25
Second Type of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome
From the Speculum Humanæ Vitæ of 1468 in the Annmary Brown Memorial Library, Providence (facsimile), Castilla-La Mancha (scan)
1467
The end of the year 1467 finds Sweynheym and Pannartz in Rome, where they set up a press in the palace of the De’ Massimi family. Their first book printed in Rome was Cicero’s Epistulæ ad Familiares of 1467, followed by the Lactantius of 1468. These were set in a new font which, though far less attractive than the Subiaco letter, was a much more roman type.