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Friday 23 Jan 2009: Italic typeface inventor
The 15th-Century Italian humanist and printer Teobaldo Manucci, also known as Aldus Manutius the Elder, is generally credited with creating the italic typeface style for which he obtained a patent. He is also believed to have been the first typographer to use semicolons.

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