74. CancellerescaBastarda,Amphiareo,i$54 [245]

This, the second division of the group of scripts, stems from the Italian
hand.The invention of the hand from which Mr Morison derives these
Latin scripts, a less formal and rounder style of writing than that of
Arrighi—named CancellerescaBastarda1—was claimed by Vespasiano
Amphiareo, the Venetian writing master.

Of the Latin scripts in France Mr Johnson says 'there are three groups
... the ronde, a descendant of civilité which is largely gothic (frequently
found as a decorative type in French books of the first half of the nine¬
teenth century), the bâtarde coulée, also called financière, because used
in the Ministry of Finance, and the bâtarde ordinaire or italienne, the
purest form of Latin script. Fournier uses the word bâtarde alone instead
of bâtarde italienne.The financière, originally a more cursive variety of

the bâtarde, in the course of time became indistinguishable from it___

The Latin scripts, that is, those based on the Italian hand, are curiously
late in typographical history, & in fact are comparatively rare before the

■'The term bastarda, bastarde, bâtarde, bastard, was used in the fifteenth century somewhat
arbitrarily to designate a current or cursive variety of a formal or text letter.' Stanley
Morison. on script types.The Fleuron No 4.

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