An exhibition dedicated to Aldus Manutius and the Renaissance in Venice 

Aldus Manutius’s exhibition. In 2015 the 500th anniversary of the death of Aldus Manutius, the most important printer in the history, who transformed Venice into the international capital of printing, was celebrated.
The celebration of this anniversary will end this year with an exhibition at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, through an itinerary consisting of over 100 works of art and more than 30 very rare editions printed between the end of the 15th century and the early 16th century.

The exhibition will retrace a unique period in the history of Western Europe, during which the book was really capable of changing the world, and creating the basis for the development of the Renaissance.

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