Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi
Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi was a papal scribe and type designer in Renaissance Italy.
Very little is known of the circumstances of his life. He was born in Cornedo Vicentino. He may have started his career as a writing master in Venice, although this has been disputed. Around 1510 he was a bookseller in Rome. He was employed as a scribe at the Apostolic Chancery in 1513. His experience in calligraphy led him to create an influential pamphlet on handwriting in 1522 called La Operina, which was the first book devoted to writing the italic script known as chancery cursive. This work, a 32-page woodblock printing, was the first of several such publications.
He turned to printing in 1524 and designed his own italic typefaces for his work, which were widely emulated. His last printing was dated shortly before the sack of Rome (1527), during which he was probably killed.
His letterforms were revived in the 20th century by designers such as Stanley Morison, Frederic Warde, Robert Slimbach and Jonathan Hoefler The italic script presented in La Operina was also revived in the 20th century with Alfred Fairbank's book A Handwriting Manual, Getty-Dubay italic script, and the work of Gunnlaugur SE Briem.
Works
*Arrigi's Manuscripts and Books as known around 1966
Manuscripts
Ludovico de Varthema, Itinerario, c. 1510, Bibliotheca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Cod. Laudau Finaly 9Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri, 1515-16, Aristotle, Ethica, 1517, Universiteits Bibliotheek, AmsterdamGian Giorgio Trissino, La Sophonisba,, British Museum, Add MS 26873Book of Hours, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, MS. J. 156Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologi and Lucian, Dialogi, translated into Latin by Livius Guidoloctus, c. 1520, British Museum, Royal MS 12 C viiiTwo briefs, in Renaissance Handwriting,, pls. 16 & 17, Missale Romanum, Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, 78 D 17Cicero, Letter to Quintus, British Museum, Add MS 11930List of benefactors of the Ospedale di San Giovanni in Laterano. Archivio di Stato, Rome, MS. 1010 Niccolò Machiavelli, Clitia, c. 1515, Colchester and Essex Museum, EnglandSource:
Printed books, etc.
Ludovico Vicentino, La Operina, 1522, Ludovico Vicentino, Il modo de temperare de Penne, 1523, Vincentino and Eustachio CelebrinoPope Clement VII, Bulla... contra homicidas, dated Prid. Idib. Junii 1524Blossio Palladio ed., Coryciana,, Vicentino and Lautizio, July 1524Gian Giorgio Trissino, La Sophonisha, Vicentino and Lautizio, July 1524Gian Giorgio Trissino, Rime del Trissino, Vicentino, September 1524Gian Giorgio Trissino, Oratione... al Serenissimo Principe di Venetia, Vicentino and Lautizio, October 1524Gian Giorgio Trissino, I ritratti , Vicentino and Lautizio, October 1524J. B. Fuscano, Al illustriss, S. don Loisi di Cordova duca di Sessa, etc. Vicentino and Lautizio, October 1524J. B. Fuscano, Al disertiss. cultor di Muse, M. Jano Vitale, etc, Vicentino and Lautizio, October 1524Pietro Aretino, Esortatione, de la pace tra l'Imperadore e il Re di Francia, Vicentino and Lautizio, 25 December 1524Agnolo Firenzuola, Discacciamento de le nuove lettere, etc., Vicentino and Lautizio, December 1524C. Silvanus Germanicus, In Pontificatum Clementis Septimi pont. max. panegyris, Vicentino and Lautizio, 12 December 1524 Pope Clement VII, Monitorium contra clericos... super habitu et tonsura et aliis, 2 December 1924Gian Giorgio Trissino, Al Reveren. Mons. Giovan Mattheo Giberti etc, 1524Gian Giorgio Trissino, Epistola... de la vita che dee tenere una donna vedova, Vicentino and Lautizio, 1524 Gian Giorgio Trissino, Canzone... al Santissimo Clemente settimo P.M., 1524Gian Giorgio Trissino, Epistola... de la lettere nuovamente aggiunte la lingua italiana, 1524B. Casalius, In legem agrarium... oratio, Vicentino and Lautizio, 1524 G. Sauromanus, Ad Principes christiannos de religione ac communt concordia, 1524G. Vitale, Iani Vitalis Panhormitani... in pacem Hymnus, 1524-25Pietro Aretino, Canzone in laude del sig. Datario, Vicentino and Lautizio, 1525Claudio Tolomei, De le lettere nuovamente aggiunte, Libro di Adriano Franci de Siena, Intitolato il Polito, Vicentino and Lautizio, 1525Aliquot Declamatiunculae et Orationes e Graeco in Latiunum versae, Vicentino and Lautizio, 14 January 1525Z. Ferrerius, Hymni novi ecclesiastici Vicentino and Lautizio, 1525G. Melezio, Ioannis Meletii... tragica Elegia ad Itaiam et Galliam infelices, 28 Februari 1525 P. Cursius, Poema de civitate Castellana Faliscorum, Vicentino and Lautizio, 29 March 1525G. Borgia, Ad Carolum Caesarem Opt. Max. Monarchia, 1 April 1525C. Marcellus, In Psalmum Usque Domine oblivisceris mei, Vicentino and Lautizio, 19 April 1525F. Cattani da Diacetto, Panegirico, 1926Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologi IIII, Vicento, 1526Pandolfo Collenuccio, Specchio di Esopo, Vicento 1526Pope Julius III, Joannus Mariae Archipiscopi Sipontini ad Principes christinos oratio de pace, Viceento. 1526Itinerarium Philippi Bellucii, Vincento, 1526Pope Clement VII, Perpetuatio officiorum etiam Romanae Curiae and other works, Vicentino M. F. Calvo, Antiquae urbis Romae cum regionibus simulachrum Vicentino, April 1527M. H. Vida, De arte poetica, etc., Vicentino, April 1527Pope Clement VII, Breve 'Cum nuper excercitus...' , dated 8 June 1527Source: