Aldus & His Dream Book
Christmas shopping led me to the discovery of a fine little paperback, newly published, that has received inadequate publicity in the book world. It isAldus and His Dream Bookby Helen Barolini.  I'm impressed.  --Book Club of California Quarterly News-Letter, vol. 55, no. 2, 1993In this marvelous, learned, and friendly volume, Helen Barolini traces the contours of his career and reveals Aldus and the Aldine press in historical and cultural context; she admirably conveys the magic of an age in which the book as we know it was invented. In addition, this book reproduces all the illustrations, and many full pages, from the Aldine edition of Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, considered to be among the masterpieces of printing and book design. Altogether,Aldus and His Dream Bookis a valuable, delightful, satisfying tome.  --A Common Reader, Summer 1992The book is an important and stimulating contribution to our understanding of early printing."  --Italian Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, 1992Where else are you going to find this graceful biographical sketch and these woodcuts? Italica Press composedAldus and His Dream Bookon a Macintosh computer using a program named after the scholar-publisher himself, the Aldus PageMaker. It's a small, inexpensive, carefully researched volume, printed in Adobe Garamond on acid-free paper in a Smyth-sewn binding. Aldus would have liked it." --Italian Americana, 1993