Francesco Francia
Francesco di Marco di Giacomo Raibolini said Francesco Francia Francesco Francia of Bologna Bolognese Francesco Biography Francesco Raibolini is the son of the engraver on wood Marco di Giacomo Raibolini , from one of the oldest families and the most prominent of Bologna, with land Zola Predosa. He first practiced the profession of goldsmith and tailor punches. He joined in 1482 in the guild of silversmiths, the head of which it is worn the following year. It was during his training as his master sent him his own nickname Francia, Francesco retained. Francesco turns to painting around 1490. His style of painting is both that of Perugino and that of Giovanni Bellini , with whom Raphael compares. His son, Giacomo Francia , imitated his style so well that it is difficult to distinguish from each other. He had Aspertini Amico , Bartolommeo Ramenghi , the engraver Marcantonio Raimondi and Timoteo della Vite as students. Despite some success in painting, Francesco never give up completely on his first job and likes to sign his works by adding to its name as aurifex. Throughout his life, he makes medals, engravings, medals in niello and from 1495, printed characters, developed until 1502 to house the Venice of Aldus Manutius , who opened his press 1494. He also became Master of the Mint of the city of Bologna, loaded it as making the punches for pressing parts. In 1506, following the fall of his patron Giovanni Bentivoglio, Bologna Francesco leave to find work in other cities, including Parma and Modena. In 1516, Francesco returned to Bologna where he opened his own press. But the same year, perhaps at the instigation of his own son, he is dragged before the court and sentenced to death, accused of murdering his step-son, beaten with iron bars. Fonts Francesco Griffo, in particular types Roman divest itself further of cursive calligraphy as his master Nicolas Jenson. Greek and italic fonts, however it remains somewhat cursory very pronounced. Francesco worked from 1495 with the printer Aldus Manutius , editor of the philosophers of antiquity, for whom he created characters Greek, whose lines eventful, although difficult to read were very popular with scholars. However, these embellishments seriously complicate the composition , which does not Manutius published in the year an edition of Aristotle's five-volume using such letters. Griffo also creates the character set for the De Aetna of Pietro Bembo published in February 1496. An evolution of these characters used in 1499 for publishing the Poliphilia. Francia founded in 1501, for an edition of Virgil, the character emphasis , told drawn in imitation of the writing of Petrarch (most likely drawn from the chancery calligraphy used by the papal diplomacy) and, although maintaining a cursive character, however, allow themselves to easily compose, and present in addition to the advantage of taking less space than the Roman and Gothic types used so far, allowing Manutius reduce the amount of paper and reduce costs production. Francia is mentioned by name in this paratext Virgil as the artist who carved the characters. He argues with Manutius, who, under the protection of Venice just got a monopoly on printing and italic Greek works, and the two men separated in 1502. Francesco size the following year another set of italics for the printer Gherescom Girolamo Soncino in Fano , in his edition of Petrarch publication to compete with an edition of 1501, of Manutius. In the dedication to Caesar Borgia , the printer is engaged in a diatribe about the originality of the writing Aldine Griffo and claims for the invention of italics, the name hitherto associated Manutius. In 1516, opening his own press in Bologna, he cuts a third italic, more elegant than the previous. His house publishes Canzoniere of Petrarch and Bembo Asolani. The families of fonts Bembo, Griffo Poliphilia, Aldine, and more distant Garamond, all descendants of the original fonts from Francesco. Works of typographer
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Giorgio Vasari cites and describes his biography in The Quick :
Page? - 1568 edition 
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