Really interesting! Thank you for sharing.
(By the way, those "Etruschi" samples are very Arial-like… ;-)
And I think that maybe Sumner Stone would agree with the classification nomenclature.

Nice article, Craig. I enjoy your writing.

I agree, nice article. It would be great to have more younger scholars doing in-depth historical research on type, such as Harry Carter did, and James Mosley has done and continues to do.

Thanks guys!

@riccard0
those "Etruschi" samples are very Arial-like
The very same thought occurred to me!
You're in Italy—have you encountered this kind of use of "etruschi" before?

have you encountered this kind of use of "etruschi" before?

I'm afraid, I haven't. But keep in mind that I'm a product of the desktop publishing revolution, which, in Italy, wiped out almost all the traditional specialised nomenclature trough bad or inexistent translations.
Maybe Antonio Cavedoni (http://typophile.com/user/8976), which I gather have a vastly greater historical knowledge than mine, could give you some further insight.

By the way, it would be interesting to know if the term was used in later Nebiolo specimens.