Arrighi, Ludovico degli. Carpi, Ugo da, 1480-approximately 1532. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) DLC text [Roma, 1522] ita The most important Renaissance writing manual, and the first to be conceived as a stand alone work that did not require additional personal instruction by a writing master. Arrighi manual can still be used as a resource in learning italic handwriting. Signatures: A-D⁴. "Finisce la arte di scriuere littera sorsiua ouer cancellarescha. Stmpata in Roma per inuentione di Ludouico Vicentino, scritore. Cvm gratia & privilegio.": p. [32]. The plates were engraved by Ugo da Carpi. A breve of Pope Clemens VII of May 3, 1525, withdrew the privilege from Ludovico and transferred it to Carpi who subsequently published a new enlarged ed. under his own name.--Cf. Kristeller in Thieme-Becker, v. 6, p. 48. LC copy bound with the author's Il mode de temperare le penne. Roma, 1523. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, Penmanship. Alphabets. Lettering. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rosenwald.0807.1