Felice Feliciano (

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1433 -

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1479) was a fifteenth-century

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, composer of

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, collector of drawings and expert on Roman antiquity, especially inscriptions on stone.

Biography

He lived just long enough to see printing arrive in Italy. He was the first to recreate geometrically the alphabet of Roman inscriptions, in 1463. The original copy of '' Alphabetum Romanum'', his treatise on the geometrical construction of Roman capital letters using the square and circle, is preserved in the

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( Codex Vat. lat. 6852). In 1470 while in

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as ''Vicario di Castel San Giorgio'', he became acquainted with

Sabadino degli Arienti Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti (Bologna 1445 – Bologna 1510) was an Italian humanist, author, poet and prose writer. Born in Bologna, he first served as a secretary for Count Andrea Bentivoglio, and then from 1491 was the client of Ercole ...

, who mentioned him in his III and IV '' Porretane''. He started printing in 1476 in Poiano, near

. In 1478, he traveled to Rome, visiting his friend

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Felix Titling font

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's Felix Titling (1934) is based on a 1463 alphabet of Feliciano.

Works

*'' Alphabetum Romanum'' (1463)
''Poems and epistles : with novellas by other authors''
(1471–1472)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Feliciano, Felice Italian calligraphers 1433 births 1479 deaths

Biography

Felix Titling font

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