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Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Second window. Albertus Pafraet (c.14-- – c. 155-) was born in Deventer to Richard Pafraet, one of the first printers in the city. By 1511 he took over his father's press and continued to work on similar types of commissions, mainly religious texts and

Main (Thompson) Library location: Class of '51 Reading Room. Aldus Manutius (c.1449 – 1515) was born in Bassiano, Italy around 1449 and studied the classics in Rome and Ferrara. He took a special interest in the ancient Greek scholarship of Guarino da Verona. In 1482, through his relationship with

Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Fifth window. Originally from Milan, Alexandre Aliate (c.14-- – c. 1505) began working as a printer in Paris in approximately 1497, where he is first documented working at the Sign of St. Barbara. In 1499, he printed his first known work, Carmina, sive