Scripts to learn in the new year, tools to learn them with.
In an application for a privilege to protect this, and three other books, [Tagliente] pleaded: ‘I have invented, not without a great deal of labour and personal expense, a new way of printing every kind of letter than can be made by the living hand: not printing in the usual way but by a new method never used before in Venice or her territory.’…the printing of engraved plates of cursive handwriting, a claim also to be made by Ludovico Arrighi.
Osley, Luminario: An Introduction to the Italian Writing-Books of the 16th & 17th Centuries.
Tagliente, Giovannantonio. Lo presente libro insegna la vera arte delo excellente scrivere. (4to. Venice, Giovanantonio de Nicolini da Sabio, 1532/3.) An online version can of the 1524 edition be found here.
osley, luminario: an introduction...italian writing-books