Kicking off the Roma portion of the Masters Workshop, Mauro Zennaro introduced the roots of of Western type design. Pointing out that it took two to create the inscriptions on which we build modern alphabets (a drawer and engraver), he looked backward and forward at type design. He ended by showing his own typefaces, including ones designed based on lettering found in Pompeii and at the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome. He concluded the morning with a walking tour past the Museo dell’ Ara Pacis (the “oldest peace monument in Roma” enclosed in a covering building designed by Richard Meier).