An epithet applied to those editions, chiefly of the classics, which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manutius (Latinized form of Italian Aldo Manuzio), of Venice, and his family, from 1494 to 1597.n. A name given to those pyrazines (CnH2n–4N2), which may be formed by the condensation of two molecules of an a-aminoaldehyde.