Panfilo Castaldi
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title:
Panfilo Castaldi
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Panfilo Castaldi was an Italian physician and "master of the art of printing", to whom local tradition attributes the invention of moveable type. He was born in Feltre but spent most of his life working in Milan. The story as it has circulated through the centuries in Feltre is that Castaldi was given examples of early Chinese block printing by Marco Polo, with which he experimented, eventually producing modern type. The story was largely unknown outside of Lombardy until it was reported in the
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Italian physician
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panfilo_Castaldi
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2024-03-22T13:56:44Z
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