Editing Aldine Press (section)

==Beginnings==
Aldus Manutius, the founder of the Aldine Press, was originally a humanist scholar and a teacher. Manutius met Andrea Torresani, who had acquired publishing equipment from the widow of [[Nicolas Jenson|Nicholas Jenson]]. The ownership of the press was originally split in two, with one half belonging to Pier Francesco Barbarigo, the nephew of [[Agostino Barbarigo]], who was the [[Doge of Venice|doge]] at the time, and the other half belonging to Torresani. Manutius owned one fifth of Torresani's share of the press. Manutius was mainly in charge of the scholarship and editing, leaving financial and operating concerns to Barbarigo and Torresani. In 1496, Manutius established his own location of the press in a building called the ''Thermae'' in the [[San Polo|Sestiere di San Polo]] on the campo Sant'Agostin in [[Venice]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Knoops|first=Johannes|title=In Search of Aldus Manutius a campo Sant'Agostin|publisher=Damocle|year=2018|isbn=978-88-943223-2-3|location=Venice, Italy|pages=17–23}}</ref> today ''numero civico'' (house number) 2343 San Polo on the ''Calle della Chiesa'' (Alley of the Church), now the location of the restaurant ''Due Colonne''.<ref name=":0" /> Though there are two commemorative plaques located on the building ''numero civico'' 2311 ''Rio Terà Secondo'', historians regard them to be erroneously placed based on contemporaneous letters addressed to Manutius.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6">{{Cite book|last=Castellani|first=Carlo|title=La stampa in Venezia dalla sua origine alla morte di Aldo Manuzio senior|publisher=F. Ongania|year=1889|isbn=978-1274832429|location=Venezia|pages=55–57}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite book|last=Brown|first=Horatio F.|title=The Venetian Printing Press: an historical study based upon documents for the most part hitherto unpublished|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029498445|publisher=New York, G. P. Putnam's sons; London, J. C. Nimmo|year=1891|location=London & New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924029498445/page/n90 43]}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> The first erroneous plaque had been placed by Abbot don Vincenzo Zenier in 1828.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Cigogna|first=Emmanuele Antonio|title=Delle inscrizioni veneziane raccolte ed illustrate|publisher=presso G. Picotti|year=1830|isbn=978-0428501563|location=Venezia|pages=41–42}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite book|last=Tassini|first=dottor Giuseppe|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.aa0008583700&view=1up&seq=18&skin=2021|title=Curiosità veneziane, ovvero origini delle denominazioni stradali di Venezia, fourth edition|publisher=F. Ongania|year=1887|isbn=978-1241740559|location=Venezia|pages=10}}</ref>

Manutius lived and worked in the ''Thermae'' in order to produce published books from the Aldine Press. This was also the location of the "New Academy", where a group of Manutius' friends, associates, and editors came together to translate Greek and Latin texts.<ref name=":3" /> In 1505, Manutius married Maria, the daughter of Torresani.<ref name="Aldus and His Dream Book" /> Torresani and Manutius were already business partners, but the marriage combined the two partners' shares in the publishing business.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=Fletcher III|first=H. George|title=New Aldine studies: documentary essays on the life and work of Aldus Manutius|publisher=B.M. Rosenthal, Inc.|year=1988|isbn=978-0960009411|location=San Francisco, CA|pages=1–8}}</ref> After the marriage, Manutius lived at Torresani's house.<ref name=":3" /> Shrinking in popularity, in 1506 the Aldine Press was moved to Torresani's house in the parish of San Paternian. It was later demolished in 1873 and was covered by a bank building in the Venice square, ''Campo Manin''.<ref name=":3" />