Editing Aldus Manutius (section)

==Modern influence==
1994 marked the 500th anniversary of Aldus Manutius's first publication. On Manutius, Paul F. Grendler wrote, "Aldus ensured the survival of a large number of ancient texts and greatly facilitated the diffusion of the values, enthusiasms, and scholarship of Italian Renaissance Humanism to the rest of Europe". "He jettisoned commentary because he felt that it prevented the dialogue between author and reader that the Renaissance prized."

===Legacy===
The Aldine Press produced more than 100 editions from 1495 to 1505. The majority were Greek classics, but many notable Latin and Italian works were published as well.

Erasmus was impressed by Manutius; "in a long passage he extols the 'tireless efforts' of Manutius in restoring ancient learning, truly 'a Herculean task,' and he announces that 'Aldus is building up a library which has no other limits than the world itself'."{{sfn|Olin|1994|p=47}}

The Palazzo dei Pio chapel in Carpi has a painted mural that includes Aldus Manutius along with Alberto and Leonello Pio. In Bassiano, Manutius's birthplace, a monument was erected to commemorate the 450th year since Manutius's death. The inscription is Manutius's own words: "for the abundance of good books which, we hope, will finally put to flight all ignorance."

The quality and popularity of Manutius's work made it more expensive in the 20th century than others published around the same time. In 1991, Martin Lowry found that an auction in New York took place where "initial prices of $6,000 – $8,000 and $8,000 – $12,000 were quotes on copies of ''Decor Puellarum'' and ''Aulus Gellius'' in Jenson’s editions: Aldus' ''Hypnerotomachia Polifili'' started at $25,000 – $30,000."

===References===
*Manutius's name is the inspiration for Progetto Manuzio, an [[Italian language|Italian]] free text project similar to [[Project Gutenberg]].
*A typeface created by [[Hermann Zapf]] was named after Aldus Manutius and dedicated to his memory.
*The novel ''[[Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore]]'' by [[Robin Sloan]] features a fictionalized version of Aldus Manutius, as well as a fictional [[secret society]] devoted to him. One of the novel's characters, Griffo Gerritszoon, designs a fictitious font called "Gerritszoon" that is preinstalled on every Mac, in allusion to Manutius's associate [[Francesco Griffo]], the designer of italic type. The Aldine Press' motto ''festina lente'' is used as the name of the fictional corporation that owns and markets the "Gerritszoon" font.
*[[Aldus]], a software company founded in Seattle in 1985, known for [[PageMaker]] and [[Adobe FreeHand|FreeHand]] for the [[Apple Macintosh]], was named after Manutius and used his profile as part of their company logo. Aldus was purchased by [[Adobe Systems]] in 1994.
*The ''Aldus Journal of Translation'', a publication from [[Brown University]], is named after Aldus Manutius. 
*The book ''John Henry Nash: The Aldus of San Francisco'' relates John Nash to Aldus Manutius and San Francisco to Venice.
*"Manutius" is the name of a [[vanity publisher]] in the English translation of [[Umberto Eco|Umberto Eco's]] 1988 novel ''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]''.