Raffaello Bertieri was a publisher, graphic designer

Graphic designer

A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...

, and type designer from Florence

Florence

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, Italy

Italy

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. Bertieri began working as a printer's apprentice in 1886 and by 1902 was an editor in Milan

Milan

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. He began publishing Il Risorgimento Grafico (Renaissance of the Graphic Arts) even before founding his own printing and publishing house, Bertieri & Vanesetti, which gained notoriety by publishing the works of Gabriele d'Annunzio

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D'Annunzio or d'Annunzio was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, and dramatist...

, and renown for its edition of L'arte di G B Bodoni. Many of his books won prizes, most notably at the hugely influential Paris Exposition of 1925.

Fonts Designed by Raffaello Bertieri

All fonts cast by the Nebiolo type foundry

Nebiolo Printech

Nebiolo Printech S.p.A. is a manufacturer of printing presses and paper and formerly a type foundry. Nebiolo & Co. was created when Giovanni Nebiolo bought out the type foundry of G. Narizzano in Turin, Italy in 1852. In 1908 the company merged with the Urania Company and operated under the name...

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• Inkunabula (1921), based on a Roman of Erhard Ratdolt
  Erhard Ratdolt
  Erhard Ratdolt was an early German printer. From Augsburg, he was active printing in Venice, where he worked from 1476 to 1486.There he produced a Kalendario for Regiomontanus, and editions of the Historia Romana of Appianus , and Euclid's Elements , solving the problem of reproducing...
  
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• Sinibaldi (1926)
• Paganini (1928), designed by Alessandro Butti
  Alessandro Butti
  Alessandro Butti was an Italian type designer who lived and worked mostly in Turin where he was art director of the Nebiolo type foundry. He also taught at the Scuola Vigliani-Paravia. Microgramma is his most famous face...
  
  under Bertieri's direction.
• Iliade (1930)
• Ruano (1933)