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DANTE Alighieri (1265-1321). Comedia. Commentary by Cristoforo Landino. Venice: Jacopo da Borgofranco, for Lucantonio Giunta, 23 January 1529.
The first edition of Dante to contain his portrait.
Folio (303 x 213mm). Title printed in red and black within a woodcut architectural border, side-pieces containing portraits of the five great Latin poets on the left and the Italian poets on the right, lower panel with figures of the nine muses, each playing a different musical instrument, full-page woodcut portrait of Dante on the title verso and 99 woodcuts in text including one full-page and two large ones at the beginning of each Cantica, woodcut initials. Later vellum, dark edges; Italian export seal issued by the Biblioteca Nazionale in Rome. Provenance: Rappaport, Rome (bookseller’s ticket) — Count Alessandro Magnaguti, Mantua (1887-1966; bookplate).
The commentary by the Florentine humanist Christoforo Landino (1424-1492) was first printed in 1481. The woodcuts of this handsome edition are repeated from the 1491 edition, and according to Essling this is their last appearance. The text is from the 1502 Aldine edition by Pietro Bembo. Adams D-92; Essling 542; Mortimer Harvard Italian, 145; Sander 2326.
The first edition of Dante to contain his portrait.
Folio (303 x 213mm). Title printed in red and black within a woodcut architectural border, side-pieces containing portraits of the five great Latin poets on the left and the Italian poets on the right, lower panel with figures of the nine muses, each playing a different musical instrument, full-page woodcut portrait of Dante on the title verso and 99 woodcuts in text including one full-page and two large ones at the beginning of each Cantica, woodcut initials. Later vellum, dark edges; Italian export seal issued by the Biblioteca Nazionale in Rome. Provenance: Rappaport, Rome (bookseller’s ticket) — Count Alessandro Magnaguti, Mantua (1887-1966; bookplate).
The commentary by the Florentine humanist Christoforo Landino (1424-1492) was first printed in 1481. The woodcuts of this handsome edition are repeated from the 1491 edition, and according to Essling this is their last appearance. The text is from the 1502 Aldine edition by Pietro Bembo. Adams D-92; Essling 542; Mortimer Harvard Italian, 145; Sander 2326.
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