英语词汇italic type的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

italic type. Italic type, in which the first two words of this sentence are printed, was invented about 1500 by the noted Italian printer Aldus Manutius, the Latin name of Teobaldo Mannucci. There is a tradition that the printer modeled his in- vention on the fine Italian hand of the poet Petrarch, but the Italian hand, a beautiful cursive style, had been widely used for copying manuscripts since its development by scholars in the 12th century. In fact, it was so well known that a fine Italian hand had already become an ironic synonym for the scheming Machiavellian politics of assassination by stiletto for which Italian nobles were notorious. Manutius, also a classical scholar, had his type cast by Francesco Griffi of Bologna and in 1501 first used it to publish an edition of Virgil, dedicating the book to his native Italy. Because of that Aldine Press dedication, the new slanting style—the first type that wasn’t upright—came to be known as Italicus, which means “Italian” or “italic.” Today words are italicized in print mainly to give them emphasis, and to indicate titles and foreign-language words. This is not the case in the King James or Authorized Version of the Bible, however, a fact that creates confusion for many people. Words italicized in the Bible should not be emphasized in reading, for they merely indicate that the original translators, who consid- ered the text sacred, arbitrarily supplied a word not existing in the text in order to make its meaning clearer—similar to the way bracketed words are used within quotes today.

词汇	italic type
词源	italic type. Italic type, in which the first two words of this sentence are printed, was invented about 1500 by the noted Italian printer Aldus Manutius, the Latin name of Teobaldo Mannucci. There is a tradition that the printer modeled his in- vention on the fine Italian hand of the poet Petrarch, but the Italian hand, a beautiful cursive style, had been widely used for copying manuscripts since its development by scholars in the 12th century. In fact, it was so well known that a fine Italian hand had already become an ironic synonym for the scheming Machiavellian politics of assassination by stiletto for which Italian nobles were notorious. Manutius, also a classical scholar, had his type cast by Francesco Griffi of Bologna and in 1501 first used it to publish an edition of Virgil, dedicating the book to his native Italy. Because of that Aldine Press dedication, the new slanting style—the first type that wasn’t upright—came to be known as Italicus, which means “Italian” or “italic.” Today words are italicized in print mainly to give them emphasis, and to indicate titles and foreign-language words. This is not the case in the King James or Authorized Version of the Bible, however, a fact that creates confusion for many people. Words italicized in the Bible should not be emphasized in reading, for they merely indicate that the original translators, who consid- ered the text sacred, arbitrarily supplied a word not existing in the text in order to make its meaning clearer—similar to the way bracketed words are used within quotes today.
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