Bartolomeo Sanvito (February/March 1433–July 1511) was a
scribe from
Padua in Italy, but trained in Rome. He was a master of
Humanist italic script. Square capital letters alternating colored and gold are a characteristic of his style.
The most detailed account of Sanvito in English is by
A. C. de la Mare and Laura Nuvoloni, ''Bartolomeo Sanvito: the Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe,'' (Paris: Association internationala de Bibliophilie, 2009). See also James Wardrop, ''The Script of Humanism: Some Aspects of Humanistic Script 1460 - 1560'' (Oxford University Press, 1963), although some information here is outdated.
External links
Short biography and bibliography, by the Vatican Library
1433 births
1511 deaths
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