Aldus Manutius, the Younger

Italian writer and publisher

1547 CE to 1597 CE

Aldus Manutius, the Younger (Italian: Aldo Manuzio il Giovane) (1547–1597) is the grandson of Aldus Manutius and son of Paulus Manutius.

He is the last member of the Manuzio family to be active in the Aldine Press that his grandfather founded.

A child prodigy, he writes, at the age of fourteen, a treatise on Latin spelling, Orthographiae Ratio.

He is known to have stated that the purpose of grammar is the clarification of syntax.

In 1575 he publishes his Epitome orthographiae.

In 1590 he is called to Rome under Pope Clement VIII to run the Press of the Vatican.

In 1597 he dies without any heirs to take over his business.

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