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three different languages, each occupying 
ene of three parallel columns on the fame 
page. It Ws to be regretted, that Aldo 
fhould have been by any meens hindered 
from completing fo noble a defign, 
In the year rse0, Aldo tad married 
¢he daughter of Andrea @Afola, who had 
been above twenty years a printer at Ve- 
pice, and of «fome reputation. From 
P*Afola he obtained fome pectiniary af- 
fifance toward his undertakings. The 
father and the fonfmlew firft printed 
jome works at their joimt expence jand af- 
fer fome time went fully into partnerfhip. 
The firfl publication, indicating the exilt- 
ence of this parmerfhip, is an edition of 
¢he Letters of Pliny, which came cut in 
the month of November, 1503, and is 
marked as having been printed i¢ edibus 
4ldi et Andree Afulani Soceri. 
In 1506, Aldo was a great fufferer by 
the war which then ravaged Italy. He 
had confiderable property in the country, 
which was confiicated. He interrupted 
his printing, and leaving Venice for a 
time, tock much fruilefs trouble to pro- 
eure its reftitution. Having gore, at the 
invitation of certain learned perions, to 
Milan, he was feized, on his return for 
Venice, as a fpy, by a party of the Duke 
ef Mantua’s foldiers, and detained in pri- 
fon at Caneto. By the good offices of 
Goffredo Carolo, he was foon fet at jierty. 
He then came back to his own home 
@ poorer man, and in worfe circumitances, 
than when he left it twelve months be- 
fore, 
He printed little or nothing for himfelf 
during the fix years immediately fuble- 
quent. He began to renew his publica- 
tions in 1512, the year of the birth of his’ 
¢hird fon, Paulo Manuzio. Befide Pau- 
Jus, he had three other children; a daugh- 
fer, who marred Julio Catone, of Man- 
tua; Manvziode Manucc!, who became a 
pricit, and paffed his life chicfly at Afola; 
and Antony, who was fome time either a 
printer or a bookfeller at Bologna. 
' Aldo publiflied a number of books in 
the years 1413 and 1514, He was going 
on with many more, when, in the year 
3515, he was cut off by death at nearly 
feventy years of age. His four children 
heing then very young, were educated by 
their mother at Afola, while their grand- 
father, with his two fons, Francefco and 
Frederico, affumed the direction of the 
wrinting-ofice which he continued to con- 
duét till his death in 1529. 
It is impoffible to beftow praife too 
high on the zeal, ability, and diligence of 
Aldo, as a printer. He ffared no pains 
Memeir of Alda Monuxio, 
[ June 1,’ 
nor expence to procure unprinted manus 
fcripts, From ail’ parts of the Chrifian. 
world, the beft manufcripts were accord- 
ingly tranfmitted to him, fome without 
price, others for money. He was not a 
printer and collater merely. His prefaces 
and differtations, fome in elegant Latin, 
others in Grerk, gives him a right to con- 
fiderable refpect among che original wri- 
ters of his age. He publifhed a Latina 
Grammar of his own compofition. In 
1515, after his death, came out uncer the 
care of his friend Marco Mufvro, a Greek. 
Grammar, which Aldo had compiled with 
great refearch and indufry. Aldo wrote, 
likewife, a Treatife De Metris Horatiants, 
which has been reprinted in Dr. Combe’s 
late London edition of Horace’s Works. 
He produced a Greek Dictionary, which 
was firft printed by himéelf, in folio, in the 
year 14973 and afterwards by Franceico 
D’Afvla, with improvements, in the year 
1524. Aldo likewile tranflated out of 
Greek into Latin, tne Grammar of Laf- 
caris, the Batrachomyomachia afcribed 
to Homer, the Sentences of Phocylides, 
and the Golden Verfes which pafs under 
the name of Pythagoras. ‘The Latin ver- 
fion of Aifop and Gabrias, printed im his 
edition of 1505, of which the copies are 
now very rare, was written by himfelf ; 
and the trarflation of the Life of Aratus, 
in his collection of the ancient aftronomers, 
He was tue author of various other pieces, 
criginals and tranflations. Several of his 
letiers, excellent in their kind, have been 
printed in collections of thole of his emi- 
nent contemporaries with whom he was in 
correipondence. Itis probable, that many 
cthers of his Jetters may be yet in unpub- 
lifhed prefervation in the libraries of ltaly. 
Printing and the ftudy conncéted with it,- 
5 y ) 
were not the only labours ef Aldo, during 
his refidence at Venice. For a feries of 
years after he fettied in that city, he gave 
a public ccurfe of readings of the beft 
Greek and Rom:n authors, which was at- 
tended by a great number of fiudents. 
While the duties in which he had engag- 
ed were of greater labour almoft than he 
could perform; much of his time was un- 
avoidably confumed by the necefliiy of 
anfwering letters, and receiving the vifits, 
of thofe whom curiofity or literary bufi- 
re(s brought to wait upon him. Impa- 
tient of thefe laft avocations, he put up an 
infcripiian over the door of his ftudy, in- 
viting thofe who fhould enter, to tell their 
bufincfs in few words, and unlefs they 
came to give affitance, to leave him 
quickly. 
' Although univerfally efteemed, and cer- 
tainly” 
