Which is me?" (Once, Mrs. Riggs, her English teacher, had returned a theme with the scribbled comment "Good. But why written in three styles of script?" To which Nancy had replied, "Because I'm not grown-up enough to be one person with one kind of signature").
Beginning in the late 1980's, he gave an advanced graduate seminar on Arabic calligraphy, in which he explained the earliest scripts -- the angular style of the script of the Koran, coins and architectural decoration and the cursive styles used in contracts, documents and, much later, in all decoration.
PROFILE of Norman Corwin (written in the style of a script for a radio drama).
By Philip Hamburger The New Yorker, April 5, 1947 P. 36 PROFILE of Norman Corwin (written in the style of a script for a radio drama).
Fraud cannot be ruled out, they said, though the cursive style of the script and a microscopic examination of the etched surface seemed to diminish suspicions.
So in the early 1970's he bought a fountain pen and began teaching himself to write in the Renaissance style of italic script.
In 1947, Hamburger wrote a Profile of Corwin in the style of a script for one of Corwin's orotund auditory dramas — along the lines of Wolcott Gibbs's send-up of Henry Luce and Time.
The second influential style of humanistic script appeared in the writings of Poggio's older friend Niccolò Niccoli, a scholar who was also an accomplished, though not a professional, scribe.
