| A | B |
| Pannartz and Sweynheym | Brought Gutenberg's invention to Italy |
| Subiaco | Cradle of Italian printing |
| Donatus | First book printed at Subiaco |
| De Civitate Dei (City of God) | First book to have page numbers |
| Nicolas Jenson | Creator of the first model roman type |
| Aldus Manutius | Introduced smaller books and italics |
| Francesco Colonna | Dream of Love |
| Erhard Ratdoit | Mathematical shapes in margins |
| Johann and Wendelin of Speyer | First printers to use the colon and the question mark |
| Petrarch's Sonnets | First Book in Italian |
| Chiaroscuro | Light and dark around images |