la operina
demetrius’ words in shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 3, scene 2. set in trattatello, apple’s own, abbreviated, yet still well appointed, version of p22 operina. designed by james grieshaber, operina is not adapted from printing types but rather from xylographic exemplars [probably the work of ugo da carpi] depicting the chancery cursive as practiced by a 16c scribe in the apostolic chancery, ludovico degli arrighi, & appearing in the first printed specimen of cursive calligraphy, La Operina di Ludovico Vicentino, da imparare di scriuere littera Cancellarescha [rome, 1522]. arrighi, also publisher, had proprietary types cut after his designs—for details of a modern recutting vide ‹o lovely hand›.







