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Dirk Martens (Latin: Theodoricus Martinus) (Aalst 1446 or 1447 – 2 May 1534) was a printer and editor in Flanders. He went to Venice and worked with the humanist Gerardus de Lisa. In 1473, he returned to Aalst and together with Johan van Westfalen started a printing press. He printed a book on the two lovers of Enea Piccolomini who later became Pope Pius II. Between 1492 and 1529, he founded two new printing ateliers in Antwerp and Leuven. He edited several humanist works by Erasmus and Thomas More (Utopia, 1516). He also edited the first letter by Columbus on the New World.

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Aalst can refer to:
  • Aalst, Belgium, a city and municipality in Belgium
  • Aalst (North Brabant), a village in the Netherlands, in the province of North-Brabant
  • Aalst (Zaltbommel), a village in the Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland

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A printer is a company that provides commercial printing services, often also offering typesetting and book-binding services. The term can also refer to people who operate printing presses, or who run printing companies.
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Fourth estate • Libel law
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Anthem
De Vlaamse Leeuw
(The Flemish Lion)

Location of Belgian Flanders in Europe

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Country Italy
Region Veneto
Province Venice (VE)
Mayor Massimo Cacciari (since April 18 2005)

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printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring an image. The systems involved were first assembled in Germany by the goldsmith Johann Gutenberg in the 1430s.
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Pius II, born Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Latin Aeneas Sylvius), (October 18, 1405 – August 14, 1464) was Pope from August 19, 1458 until his death in 1464.
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Pius II, born Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Latin Aeneas Sylvius), (October 18, 1405 – August 14, 1464) was Pope from August 19, 1458 until his death in 1464.
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Antwerp (Dutch: Antwerpen   (help info ) , French: Anvers) is a city and municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp province in Flanders, one of Belgium's three
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Country Belgium
Community Flemish Community
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Province Flemish Brabant
Arrondissement Leuven
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Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, 1466/1469 – July 12, 1536) was a Dutch humanist and theologian.
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Saint Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), also known as Sir Thomas More, was an English lawyer, author, and statesman. During his lifetime he earned a reputation as a leading humanist scholar and occupied many public offices, including that of Lord Chancellor
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Utopia (from Greek: οὐ no, and τόπος, place, i.e. "no place" or "place that does not exist," as well as "perfect place") is a fictional island near the coast of the Atlantic Ocean written about by Sir Thomas More as the
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COLUMBUS is a computational chemistry software suite for calculating ab initio molecular electronic structures, designed as a collection of individual programs communicating through files.
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The New World is one of the names used for the Americas. When the term originated in the late 15th century, the Americas were new to the Europeans, who previously thought of the world as consisting only of Europe, Asia, and Africa (collectively, the Old World).
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Christoffel Plantijn (in French Christophe Plantin) (ca. 1520-1589 was an influential Renaissance humanist, book printer and publisher who was born in France (probably Touraine or Saint-Avertin, near the city of Tours), but who settled in the city of Antwerp in 1549.
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