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Barbie Latza Nadeau

Barbie Latza Nadeau is a Rome-based journalist and author who writes primarily for The Daily Beast, Newsweek and Scientific American.

A 17th-century engraving of the revolutionary printer

The Man Who Changed Reading Forever

The Venetian roots of revolutionary modern book printer Aldus Manutius shaped books as we know them today