{"id":127,"date":"2020-09-07T21:14:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T21:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/?page_id=127"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:59:40","slug":"italic-writing-manuals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/italic-writing-manuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Italic writing manuals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/files\/2020\/09\/fullsizeoutput_23c7-1024x769.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/files\/2020\/09\/fullsizeoutput_23c7-1024x769.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/files\/2020\/09\/fullsizeoutput_23c7-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/files\/2020\/09\/fullsizeoutput_23c7-768x577.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/files\/2020\/09\/fullsizeoutput_23c7-1536x1154.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/files\/2020\/09\/fullsizeoutput_23c7.jpeg 1856w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Credited as the first Italic writing manual, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/laoperinadiludou00arri\/page\/n5\/mode\/2up\"><em>La operina<\/em><\/a> of Ludovico deli Arrighi, published in 1524<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/files\/2020\/09\/fullsizeoutput_23ca-1024x713.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/files\/2020\/09\/fullsizeoutput_23ca-1024x713.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/files\/2020\/09\/fullsizeoutput_23ca-300x209.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/files\/2020\/09\/fullsizeoutput_23ca-768x535.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/files\/2020\/09\/fullsizeoutput_23ca-1536x1070.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/files\/2020\/09\/fullsizeoutput_23ca.jpeg 1548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Gerardus Mercator&#8217;s 1540 treatise on Italic letterforms from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rarebookroom.org\/Control\/mcrlit\/index.html\">Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}