Aldus Manutius, the Younger (1547–1597) was the grandson of Aldus Manutius

Aldus Manutius

Aldus Pius Manutius , the Latinised name of Aldo Manuzio —sometimes called Aldus Manutius, the Elder to distinguish him from his grandson, Aldus Manutius, the Younger—was an Italian humanist who became a printer and publisher when he founded the Aldine Press at Venice.His publishing legacy includes...

 and son of Paulus Manutius

Paulus Manutius

Paulus Manutius was a Venetian printer with a humanist education, the third son of the famous printer Aldus Manutius and his wife Maria Torresano. Aldus died when the boy was two, and his grandfather and two uncles, the Asolani, carried on the Aldine Press...

. He was the last member of the Manuzio family to be active in the Aldine Press

Aldine Press

Aldine Press was the printing office started by Aldus Manutius in 1494 in Venice, from which were issued the celebrated Aldine editions of the classics . The Aldine Press is famous in the history of typography, among other things, for the introduction of italics...

 that his grandfather founded. A child prodigy, he wrote, at the age of fourteen, a treatise on Latin spelling, Orthographiae Ratio. He is known to have stated that the purpose of grammar is the clarification of syntax. In 1575 he published his Epitome orthographiae. In 1590 he was called to Rome under Pope Clement VIII to run the Press of the Vatican

Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...

. In 1597 he died without any heirs to take over his business.