[Type specimen sheet]
Contributors: Trissino, Giovanni Giorgio, 1478-1550
Publisher: [Tolomeo Janiculo]
Published: 1529
Place of publication: Vicenza]
Language: ita
Subjects: Alphabets; Italian language; Orthography and spelling; Type and type-founding
Other titles: Specimen sheet.
Notes: Arrighi's first Italic type, designed and cut for Giovanni Giorgio Trissino.

Trissino commissioned Arrighi to supplement the italic font with letters (some Greek) to be incorporated into a reformed alphabet used for Trissino's literary and linguistic works.

First Arrighi type specimen sheet printed in Italy; first of his formal chancery types.

Janiculo was Trissino's private printer, removing with him from Rome to Vicenza in 1529.

Fumagalli, G.  Lexicon typographicum d'Italiae, p. 519

Gamba, B.  Testi di lingua, p. 487

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 1

Mortimer, R.  Italian 16th cent., II, p. 701