Lorem Ipsum (revisited)...
Found a nice little site on the history of "Lorem Ipsum...": which says that, according to some linguistic detective work by Professor Richard McClintock...
Part I of a full Latin version is here (search the page for the rare word "consectetur", and you should see "dolorem ipsum" a few words before it).Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC.
However... I wonder whether anyone has tried to identify which particular incunabulum this came from? According to this listing of pre-1472 incunabula, there was one published in Venice by "Vindelinus de Spira, for Johannes de Colonia, not after 9 Nov. 1471."
Could it be that Venetian printers used Lorem Ipsum right from the start?
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