MANUTIUS, ALDUS, THE YOUNGER

born Feb. 13, 1547, Venice died Oct. 28, 1597, Rome Italian Aldo Manuzio Il Giovane last member of the Italian family of Manuzio to be active in the famous Aldine Press established by Aldus Manutius (14491515). When only 14, Aldus the Younger wrote a work on Latin spelling, Orthographiae ratio. While in Venice superintending the Aldine Press after his father, Paulus (151274), had moved to Rome, he published his Epitome orthographiae (1575) and his commentary on Horace's Ars poetica (1576). At about the same time he was appointed professor of literature at the Cancelleria there. In 1585 Manutius moved to Bologna, where the next year he published his life of Cosimo de' Medici; in 1587 he went to Pisa, and in 1588 Sixtus V called him to Rome. Manutius married a daughter of the publisher Bernardo Giunta. Although he had children, none carried on the Aldine Press.