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BODONI<br />
Lamlitusco di NiT,<br />
We have come to Parma in August,<br />
1991, on a pilgrimage, but we<br />
have not come for the food. We<br />
have come for the type. In Parma,<br />
the type is Bodoni. This is the<br />
city where Giambattista Bodoni<br />
lived and<br />
THE<br />
CHARTERHO USE<br />
OF PARMA<br />
STEND HAL<br />
STENDHAL, the French writer and critic and<br />
a contemporary of Bodoni's set his<br />
classic novel, The Charterhouse of Parma,<br />
in this illustrious city.<br />
PHOTOGRAPHS OF BODONI AND BODONI ' S BOOKS BY DANIE<br />
Our small band of travelers<br />
consists of Holly Goldsmith and<br />
Janice Prescott Fishman from<br />
Xerox Corporation, Allan Haley<br />
and Ilene Strizver from Inter-<br />
national Typeface Corporation,<br />
and me.<br />
worked 200<br />
years ago.<br />
These are<br />
the streets<br />
H ic ille est Magnus, typica quo nullus in are<br />
Mures depromsit divitiaS, veneres.<br />
PORTRAIT of Bodoni, drawn by A. Appiani<br />
and engraved by E Rosaspina, which<br />
appeared in Bodoni's Manuale Tipografico,<br />
Parma, 1818 (18 cm).<br />
he walked and the food he ate. But<br />
we are not here merely to taste.<br />
We want to take something home.<br />
We are here to begin making<br />
ITC Bodoni.<br />
RIVERS. WITH PERMISSION FROM CARY GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION, ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY<br />
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