https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n24/erin-maglaque/case-endings-and-calamity Created Fri, 01/12/2023 - 00:00 Updated Fri, 01/12/2023 - 00:00 In his twenties and thirties, Aldus Manutius was an ordinary humanist. But then, at forty, he moved to Venice and reinvented himself as a publisher. Why did he do it? How did he become a printer so ambitious that he changed what reading meant?