DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). [ Divina Commedia ], commentary by Christoforo Landino and Alessandro Vellutello, edited by Francesco Sansovino. Venice: Domenico Nicolino, for Giovanni Battista and Melchiore Sessa and brothers, 1564. 2° (322 x 214mm). Title with large woodcut oval portrait of Dante within elaborate scrollwork border with winged figures, text in italic with commentary surround in roman type, initials and ornaments, 95 woodcut illustrations, one full-page, printer's device within scrollwork border at end. (Clean tear and light crease to title, occasional light waterstaining, spotting and soiling.) Contemporary red goatskin, central gilt medallion (rebacked, preserving most of the old spine, some staining and rubbing at extremities). Provenance : unidentified ownership inscription on title -- London, Carthusian monastery, gift of Daniel Wray (stamp on title verso).
DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). [ Divina Commedia ], commentary by Christoforo Landino and Alessandro Vellutello, edited by Francesco Sansovino. Venice: Domenico Nicolino, for Giovanni Battista and Melchiore Sessa and brothers, 1564. 2° (322 x 214mm). Title with large woodcut oval portrait of Dante within elaborate scrollwork border with winged figures, text in italic with commentary surround in roman type, initials and ornaments, 95 woodcut illustrations, one full-page, printer's device within scrollwork border at end. (Clean tear and light crease to title, occasional light waterstaining, spotting and soiling.) Contemporary red goatskin, central gilt medallion (rebacked, preserving most of the old spine, some staining and rubbing at extremities). Provenance : unidentified ownership inscription on title -- London, Carthusian monastery, gift of Daniel Wray (stamp on title verso). First edition to print the commentaries of Landino and Vellutello together, first Sansovino edition. The title portrait is new to this edition; Mortimer suggests that it may derive from a portrait of Dante by Vasari. The text woodcuts were cut for Francesco Marcolini's 1544 edition of Vellutello's commentary and were used again by the Sessa brothers for their 1578 and 1596 editions of Dante. Mortimer describes them as 'an extension of the commentary, a more instructive form of illustration'. Adams D-103; Brunet II, 504; Mortimer Harvard Italian, 148.
DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). [ Divina Commedia ], commentary by Christoforo Landino and Alessandro Vellutello, edited by Francesco Sansovino. Venice: Domenico Nicolino, for Giovanni Battista and Melchiore Sessa and brothers, 1564. 2° (322 x 214mm). Title with large woodcut oval portrait of Dante within elaborate scrollwork border with winged figures, text in italic with commentary surround in roman type, initials and ornaments, 95 woodcut illustrations, one full-page, printer's device within scrollwork border at end. (Clean tear and light crease to title, occasional light waterstaining, spotting and soiling.) Contemporary red goatskin, central gilt medallion (rebacked, preserving most of the old spine, some staining and rubbing at extremities). Provenance : unidentified ownership inscription on title -- London, Carthusian monastery, gift of Daniel Wray (stamp on title verso).
DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). [ Divina Commedia ], commentary by Christoforo Landino and Alessandro Vellutello, edited by Francesco Sansovino. Venice: Domenico Nicolino, for Giovanni Battista and Melchiore Sessa and brothers, 1564. 2° (322 x 214mm). Title with large woodcut oval portrait of Dante within elaborate scrollwork border with winged figures, text in italic with commentary surround in roman type, initials and ornaments, 95 woodcut illustrations, one full-page, printer's device within scrollwork border at end. (Clean tear and light crease to title, occasional light waterstaining, spotting and soiling.) Contemporary red goatskin, central gilt medallion (rebacked, preserving most of the old spine, some staining and rubbing at extremities). Provenance : unidentified ownership inscription on title -- London, Carthusian monastery, gift of Daniel Wray (stamp on title verso). First edition to print the commentaries of Landino and Vellutello together, first Sansovino edition. The title portrait is new to this edition; Mortimer suggests that it may derive from a portrait of Dante by Vasari. The text woodcuts were cut for Francesco Marcolini's 1544 edition of Vellutello's commentary and were used again by the Sessa brothers for their 1578 and 1596 editions of Dante. Mortimer describes them as 'an extension of the commentary, a more instructive form of illustration'. Adams D-103; Brunet II, 504; Mortimer Harvard Italian, 148.
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