page_title: Giovanni Battista Palatino
hierarchical_section_title: Giovanni Battista Palatino
caption_attribution_description: English: Libro nuovo d’imparare a scrivere, cover, Giovanni Battista Palatino 1540 Italiano: Libro nuovo d'imparare a scrivere tutte sorte lettera antica et moderna, di Giovanni Battista Palatino, stampato la prima volta in Roma per Baldassare di Francesco Cartolari nel 1540
context_page_description: Giovanni Battista Palatino, also known as Giambattista, was an Italian calligrapher. He was born in Rossano, Calabria, but moved to Rome as a young man. In 1538, Palatino acquired Roman citizenship, much to his pride. Palatino's Libro nuovo d'imparare a scrivere is the best-known Renaissance treatise on calligraphy. He dedicated it to the Academia dello sdegno, of which he was secretary. As a calligrapher, Palatino was fascinated by ciphers and generally by the metamorphosis of the alphabet. The serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf and released in 1948 was named after Giambattista Palatino.
context_section_description: Giovanni Battista Palatino (c. 1515 - c. 1575), also known as Giambattista, was an Italian calligrapher. He was born in Rossano, Calabria, but moved to Rome as a young man. In 1538, Palatino acquired Roman citizenship, much to his pride. Palatino's Libro nuovo d'imparare a scrivere is the best-known Renaissance treatise on calligraphy. He dedicated it to the Academia dello sdegno (Academy of the Disdainful), of which he was secretary. As a calligrapher, Palatino was fascinated by ciphers and generally by the metamorphosis of the alphabet. The serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf and released in 1948 was named after Giambattista Palatino.
caption: The title page of Libro nuovo d'imparare a scrivere
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