5-465: Tagliente is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Giovanni Antonio Tagliente , (c. 1460s – c. 1528), Italian author and publisher Gina Tagliente (born 1965), American guitarist, better known as Gina Stile Carla Tagliente (born 1979), American field hockey player The Tagliente family, American owners of the company Tage Inn [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
10-523: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Giovanni Antonio Tagliente Giovanni Antonio Tagliente (sometimes written Giovannantonio ) (c. 1460s – c. 1528) was a calligrapher , author, printer and publisher based in Venice during the Renaissance period. Tagliente began his life as a calligrapher and taught around Italy before returning to Venice in 1491. He worked for
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20-565: The Venetian Chancery and was given a sinecure by the senate, becoming a publisher late in life. Tagliente's publications were textbooks and self-help volumes. These included guides on learning to read, arithmetic, accounting, embroidery patterns, textile production and a book of model love letters. Some of his books were very popular and were issued in dozens of editions. They have come to attention of feminist and social historians for their promotion of reading for women and
25-506: The uneducated; his textbook on reading aimed to teach reading "in a period of two months, more or less depending on the intelligence of the reader." He also wrote for a target market of potential civil servants. Tagliente published a writing manual, The True Art of Excellent Writing or Lo presente libro , in Venice in 1524, with engravings and some text set in an italic typeface presumably based on his calligraphy. Tagliente's typeface
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