Figure 28
Page of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: Aldus, Venice
From a copy in Harvard College Library (facsimile), Internet Archive (scan)
1499
A specimen of this Aldine roman font is shown in the facsimile from a page of the Hypnerotomachia. It is distinctly inferior to Jenson’s roman characters, and perhaps to those of the Venetian printer, Ratdolt.