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.

[1][2] Tagliente began his life as a calligrapher and taught around Italy before returning to Venice in 1491.

He worked for the Venetian Chancery and was given a sinecure by the senate, becoming a publisher late in life.

[4] These included guides on learning to read,[5] arithmetic,[6] accounting,[7] embroidery patterns,[8][9] textile production and a book of model love letters.

[2][1] Historian Alfred F. Johnson reprinted his work, along with his contemporary Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi.

Giovanni Antonio Tagliente's 1524 writing manual. This section is engraved as a simulation of Tagliente's handwriting; other parts were set in a typeface of similar design.