Raffaello Bertieri created the typeface Ruano after being inspired by the Vatican calligrapher Ferdinando Ruano. Ferdinando Ruano was a well-known calligrapher who drew “Lettera Cancellaresce Formata”. This chancery font has also been referred as Flanko Ruano casted in 1926 by Nebiolo & Co. printing company.
Raffaello Bertieri an artist from Florence, Italy worked for Nebiolo & Co. printing company for most of his life as a publisher, graphic designer and type designer, where he created several typefaces. Bertieri career started in Milan in 1886 as a printer’s apprentice and by 1902 he was an editor. He started publishing prints way before he owned his own printing and publishing house, named Bertieri & Vanesetti. He gained notoriety and fame after publishing the works of Gabriele D’Annunzio, an Italian writer, poet, journalist, playwright and soldier during World War I. D’Annunzio was associated with the Decadent Movement in his literary works and transformed from literary figure into a national war hero during World War I. The Decadent Movement was during the late 19th century artistic and literary movement that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality. Raffaello Bertieri wrote many books that won prizes, most notably at the hugely influential Paris Exposition of 1925. …show more content…
after he brought out the type foundry of G. Narizzano in Turin, Italy. The company merged with the Urania Company in 1908 and operated under the name Augustea until they began to buy out many smaller workshops and factories for casting metal. The manufacturer company had been renamed again in 1916 to Società Nebiolo. Fiat automobile manufacturing company bought the press manufacturing business in 1978, turning the type business over to Italiana Caratteri. The one hundred sixty-five-year-old manufacture presses company is still producing typeface and font under its current name that changed back in 1992 to Nebiolo
Raffaello Bertieri an artist from Florence, Italy worked for Nebiolo & Co. printing company for most of his life as a publisher, graphic designer and type designer, where he created several typefaces. Bertieri career started in Milan in 1886 as a printer’s apprentice and by 1902 he was an editor. He started publishing prints way before he owned his own printing and publishing house, named Bertieri & Vanesetti. He gained notoriety and fame after publishing the works of Gabriele D’Annunzio, an Italian writer, poet, journalist, playwright and soldier during World War I. D’Annunzio was associated with the Decadent Movement in his literary works and transformed from literary figure into a national war hero during World War I. The Decadent Movement was during the late 19th century artistic and literary movement that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality. Raffaello Bertieri wrote many books that won prizes, most notably at the hugely influential Paris Exposition of 1925. …show more content…
after he brought out the type foundry of G. Narizzano in Turin, Italy. The company merged with the Urania Company in 1908 and operated under the name Augustea until they began to buy out many smaller workshops and factories for casting metal. The manufacturer company had been renamed again in 1916 to Società Nebiolo. Fiat automobile manufacturing company bought the press manufacturing business in 1978, turning the type business over to Italiana Caratteri. The one hundred sixty-five-year-old manufacture presses company is still producing typeface and font under its current name that changed back in 1992 to Nebiolo