Jonathan Gibson’s chapter ‘From Palatino to Cresci: Italian Writing Books and the Italic Scripts of Early Modern English Letters’ opens a new book published in the University of Pennsylvania Press’s ‘Material Texts’ series, Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain , edited by James Daybell and Andrew Gordon. The chapter highlights the influence of the calligraphic models of two sixteenth-century writing masters on italic writing in early modern England.
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