The development of humanist book script — from the pioneering years of the 1390s until the establishment and consolidation of the upright Northern Italian antique and oblique italics in the last decades of the fifteenth century — has been carefully described by among others Stefano Zamponi and his team in recent years. Much less work has been done on the elaboration of the humanist epigraphical style (script and texts) though even here important new conclusions on the early phase.