Giambattista Bodoni is remembered for writing that changed what came after it.
The record lists Giambattista Bodoni as Italian typographer, type-designer, compositor, printer and publisher in Parma (1740-1813).
Giambattista Bodoni was born at Saluzzo in 1740.
The eighteenth century built the literary marketplace - periodicals, subscription publishing, and readers who paid.
He worked as type designer, editor and typographer.
The writing is recorded in Italian.
His name is attached above all to designs of pseudoclassical typefaces and highly styled editions, some considered more apt "to be admired for typeface and layout, not to be. Reputation in letters is unusually volatile: writers are forgotten for a generation and then recovered by one.
Giambattista Bodoni died in 1813, aged 73. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
