Bartolomeo Sanvito
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Bartolomeo Sanvito was a scribe
from Padua
in Italy, but trained in Rome. He was a master of Humanist italic script
. Square capital letters alternating colored and gold are a characteristic of his style.
The most detailed account of Sanvito in English is found in James Wardrop, The Script of Humanism: Some Aspects of Humanistic Script 1460 - 1560 (Oxford University Press, 1963).
Scribe
A scribe is a person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession and helps the city keep track of its records. The profession, previously found in all literate cultures in some form, lost most of its importance and status with the advent of printing...
from Padua
Padua
Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...
in Italy, but trained in Rome. He was a master of Humanist italic script
Italic script
Italic script, also known as chancery cursive, is a semi-cursive, slightly sloped style of handwriting and calligraphy that was developed during the Renaissance in Italy...
. Square capital letters alternating colored and gold are a characteristic of his style.
The most detailed account of Sanvito in English is found in James Wardrop, The Script of Humanism: Some Aspects of Humanistic Script 1460 - 1560 (Oxford University Press, 1963).