Scholar and printer, born Bassiano, near Velletri, Italy, 1450; died Venice, Italy, 1515. He established the celebrated Aldine printing press at Venice, which issued during his lifetime thirty-three first editions of the Greek classics, most of them printed in the Aldine italics adapted from Petrarch's handwriting. He also established the New or Aldine Academy of Hellenists, 1500, which compiled the first Latin and Greek lexicon.
This dictionary contains not only definitions and explanations of every subject in Religion, Scripture, tradition, doctrine, morals, sacraments, rites, customs, devotions and symbolism, but also accounts of the Church in every continent, country, diocese; missions, notable Catholic centers, cities, and places with religious names; religious orders, church societies, sects and false religions. It has brief articles also on historical events and personages, on the Old Testament and New, and on popes, prelates, priests, men and women of distinction, showing what the Church has done for civilization and correcting many errors which have hitherto passed for history.Wikipedia
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