Giambattista Bodoni was an Italian printer. He was born in 1740 at Saluzzo and died in 1813. In 1758 he went to Rome, and was employed in the printing-office of the Propaganda. He was afterwards at the head of the ducal printing-house in Parma, where he produced works of great beauty. His editions of Greek, Latin, Italian, and French classics are highly prized. Research Giambattista Bodoni
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