photos: aldine logo in Hippone Basilique /aldine logo on a italian grammar by Aldus Manutius the Younger, with the logo drawn by Antonio Manutius (it's unclear if he's brother or uncle). I think Antonio Manutius, once becoming Hassan Pacha Veneziano, king of Algiers, re-converted to Christian before dying. The text in the ecusson says "faithful to the new god", typical of converted. Gabriel Piroird was the last archibishop of Constantine. He isn't dead, but retired in France but curiously have a tomb in Algeria. I think in Hassan Pacha Veneziano had hidden books in his tomb. But Eglise Chrétienne d'Afrique is itself a carefully closed tomb. The most incredible thing is I took the shot in Annaba (Algeria) when traveling over there, without knowing who he was and the enormous historical world this logo represents. My Algerian friends insisted for taking me there, even if I told them I wasn't Christian but Buddhist. I took the shot because I love dolphins and anchors and was looking for a tattoo image. Two years later, I discovered that most of the references in marginalia of Topography and General History of Algiers were primarly printed in Aldine pres. whose logo is precisely the one I shot in St-Augustine Basilique. I did the tattoo.
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