Toward a More Comprehensive Renaissance Palaeography
Millard Meiss
Of all the accomplishments of cultural renewal in fifteenth century basic change symbols writing has proved one most durable, for its results are still clearly with us today. Though story abandonment “Gothic” and restoration “Roman” has, course, often been told, it nevertheless told briefly, interest concentrated on early stages development design type first printed books.1 But even initial period at beginning many important documents have not published, so that despite a few valuable essays we well informed about sources or contributions pioneers, such as Niccolo Niccoli Francesco Poggio. This lack close investigation is probably due to weakness motive usually serves powerful stimulant palaeographical studies: wish, indeed need, classify objects grounds script. Our comparatively greater knowledge production Renaissance art history checked growth their regrettable aesthetic historical reasons, because periods Western produced great beauty.
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