Word: scribesmen
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...labored process of casting words into metal had come to Italy years before, but it was the inspiration of Aldo Manucci which made it a characteristic art of the Renaissance. From the medleval scribesmen, from the letters of Petrarch, he devised the beautiful type which even today is reserved for the greatest books. From the scribesmen also he took the manuscripts on which for centuries they had been perpetuating the classics: he printed them with copious and cloquent notes, and scattered them throughout the libraries of Italy. Out of these the artists of the Renaissance took the sudden vision...
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