onSponsored by the Caxton Club.
March Midday Program
Dr. Oren Margolis, associate professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich
“So, are you going out with that Aldus guy again?”
“I don’t know. Not sure I like that type.”
Aldus. Aldine Press. Italics. Octavo. All immensely influential in the history of printing innovations. So let’s Zoom to Venice in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to meet that fascinating and exacting printer, publisher, and nurturer of writing talent: Aldus Manutius.
Our guide on this journey will be Dr. Oren Margolis, associate professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, a UNESCO City of Literature. Much published, Margolis created an exhibition called Aldus Manutius: The Struggle and the Dream at Oxford’s Bodleian Library and is the author of Aldus Manutius: The Invention of the Publisher (Reaktion Books, 2023).
Even though he was awarded his PhD from Oxford and his MA in Medieval History from King’s College London, Oren speaks passable American, having earned his BA from that traditional Big Ten school the University of Southern California.
Aldus printed incunabula, was instrumental in publishing and printing works of Desiderius Erasmus, and in a remarkable feat that outshone anything Nostradamus forecast, once predicted that he would be the subject of a well-attended Caxton Club meeting. Don’t let Aldus down.
Even if you can’t attend at the scheduled time, if you’re interested, please register. After the program, we’ll send an email to all registrants, asking if you’d like a link to the complete recording. That way you can see the program even if you couldn’t attend live, ran into technical issues, or simply wanted to watch it again.
For more information and to register, click here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5903263/Registration
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