Keywords
national typography
printed culture
Italy-France
cultural-political power
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Abstract
This article presents a series of episodes that document the attention and the political-cultural interest of the pre and post revolutionary France towards the office of the typographer Giambattista Bodoni, which represented the finest in Italian printing at the end of the 18th century. This brief overview shows the concern of the growing French power to position itself at the head of European typography, it reveals the competition between France and Italy (Didot-Bodoni) in that art, and it provides new data for the analysis of the complex relation between printing and power, which was the key in the Western World during the late Modern Age. The methodology adopted is based on the use of primary sources from archives and bibliography, in order to build an analysis that may prove Bodoni’s ability to stay on the axis between printing and power through the prominence of his typographic art.
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