Packet 8: Bonus 13

In an adaptation of a medieval superstition, young men apprenticing in this profession were supposedly pranked into making mistakes by the demon Titivillus. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this profession that employed apprentices referred to as “devils.” Johann Fust, a goldsmith who employed people in this profession, was briefly imprisoned for witchcraft after selling his wares to King Louis XI.
ANSWER: printer [accept type setter or typist; accept other answers involving a printing press worker]
[10e] Titivillus was blamed for the printing error of “thou shall commit adultery” in editions of a Bible that used an English translation commissioned in 1611 by this ruler, who also published the treatise Daemonologie.
ANSWER: James I of England [or James VI of Scotland; prompt on James]
[10h] A stigmatized black “printer’s devil” in Venice worked for this printer, who produced Greek versions of the Bible. This printer invented italic type for his small books called libelli portatiles.
ANSWER: Aldus Manutius [or Aldo Manuzio]
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