[Footnote 116: The press of Aldus Manutius, a Roman, was
established at Venice about the year 1494: he printed above
sixty considerable works of Greek literature, almost all for
the first time; several containing different treatises and
authors, and of several authors, two, three, or four
editions, (Fabric. Bibliot. Graec. tom. xiii. p. 605, &c.)
Yet his glory must not tempt us to forget, that the first
Greek book, the Grammar of Constantine Lascaris, was printed
at Milan in 1476; and that the Florence Homer of 1488
displays all the luxury of the typographical art. See the
Annales Typographical of Mattaire, and the Bibliographie
Instructive of De Bure, a knowing bookseller of Paris.]