sentences:  Swiss art historian Jakob Burckhardt described the classically inspired Renaissance "modello" of dual case roman and cursive italic types as "The model and ideal for the whole western world".Venetian pre-eminence in type design was brought to an end by the political and economic turmoil that concluded the Renaissance in Italy with the sack of Rome in 1527.Soon after 1500, roman typefaces began to gain popularity north of the Alps for printing of Latin literature.