Macro-Typography

Brings news on research into the history of text presentation. Recent posts deal with my discovery of the world's oldest data visualization, the 5th-century Great Stemma. This blog also offers a way to comment on the www.piggin.net website and communicate with the author, Jean-Baptiste Piggin.

Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
2019-04-23

Holy Mountain

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One of the many curious features of the Tabula Peutingeriana is a depiction of Monte Tifata, a holy mountain in Campania, Italy. Tifata is ...
2018-05-24

Via Appia Found on Satellite Image

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The Appian Way is perhaps the world's most celebrated road. On the outskirts of Rome it is a major tourist attraction. I have just disco...
2018-02-03

Backbone of Europe

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The oldest chart of the western world, the Tabula Peutingeriana, would be better known to map enthusiasts if it were an approachable documen...
2017-10-27

Squeezing Secrets from the Peutinger Diagram

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Do all roads lead to Rome? Not with the Peutinger Diagram. In neither sense of the phrase. In Africa as depicted on this extraordinary lat...
2017-05-17

Matteo's Grotesques

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Matteo da Milano was a talented Italian illuminator working in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Originally from Milan, he did most of...
2016-08-31

Men Who Wear Glasses

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The Life of Francesco I del Rovere is a biography with a series of extraordinary illuminations depicting 16th-century court life in Italy. ...
2016-01-28

Bodmer Papyrus

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A cache of 22 papyri, all apparently discovered and assembled in Egypt in 1952, was smuggled later to Switzerland to be sold for the highest...
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