DANTE, Alighieri (1265-1321). La comedia . Venice: Francesco Marcolini for A. Vellutello, June 1544. 4° (226 x 152mm). Italic type, roman type for title, headings and headlines, text with commentary surrounding, shoulder notes in the prefatory matter, initial spaces with printed guide-letter, 87 woodcut illustrations, including 2 repetitions and 3 full-page blocks marking the opening of Inferno , Purgatorio and Pardiso , with 3 illustrations in the margin. (Title-page with paper repairs not touching text, preliminary leaves lightly dust soiled with a trace of spotting and very light staining, very occasional ink spots, wormhole repaired to margin G8-I2, lacking last blank.) Later vellum, spine titled in manuscript (lightly dust soiled). Provenance : Arrigoni de Treviglio (1789; signature on B3r); 2pp of bibliographic notes on 2ff bound at rear.
DANTE, Alighieri (1265-1321). La comedia . Venice: Francesco Marcolini for A. Vellutello, June 1544. 4° (226 x 152mm). Italic type, roman type for title, headings and headlines, text with commentary surrounding, shoulder notes in the prefatory matter, initial spaces with printed guide-letter, 87 woodcut illustrations, including 2 repetitions and 3 full-page blocks marking the opening of Inferno , Purgatorio and Pardiso , with 3 illustrations in the margin. (Title-page with paper repairs not touching text, preliminary leaves lightly dust soiled with a trace of spotting and very light staining, very occasional ink spots, wormhole repaired to margin G8-I2, lacking last blank.) Later vellum, spine titled in manuscript (lightly dust soiled). Provenance : Arrigoni de Treviglio (1789; signature on B3r); 2pp of bibliographic notes on 2ff bound at rear. FIRST EDITION EDITED AND WITH COMMENTARY BY ALESSANDRO VELLUTELLO, dedicated to Pope Paul III, with the extra text from canto ii of the Purgatorio printed in the lower margin of the recto of V7. THE FIRST USE OF THIS INFLUENTIAL SERIES OF WOODCUTS, which marked a revolutionary departure from the work of earlier artists. 'While the fifteenth-centruy blocks could serve as a quick reference for figures in the text, these 1544 blocks are an extension of the commentary, a more instructive for of illustration' (Mortimer). These same woodcuts went on to appear in the Sessa brothers' editions of 1564, 1578 and 1596, whilst 79 of the original 85 blocks were used again in Palazzi's Compendio della Comedia di Dante Alighieri (Venice: Albrizzi, 1696). They were also widely copied, appearing in editions by Rouillé (Lyons: 1551) and Morando (Venice: 1554).Adams D94; Mortimer Italian , 146; Sander 2328; Essling I:2, i, 545; Brunet II, 503 ('une des meilleures éditions anciennes de Dante').
DANTE, Alighieri (1265-1321). La comedia . Venice: Francesco Marcolini for A. Vellutello, June 1544. 4° (226 x 152mm). Italic type, roman type for title, headings and headlines, text with commentary surrounding, shoulder notes in the prefatory matter, initial spaces with printed guide-letter, 87 woodcut illustrations, including 2 repetitions and 3 full-page blocks marking the opening of Inferno , Purgatorio and Pardiso , with 3 illustrations in the margin. (Title-page with paper repairs not touching text, preliminary leaves lightly dust soiled with a trace of spotting and very light staining, very occasional ink spots, wormhole repaired to margin G8-I2, lacking last blank.) Later vellum, spine titled in manuscript (lightly dust soiled). Provenance : Arrigoni de Treviglio (1789; signature on B3r); 2pp of bibliographic notes on 2ff bound at rear.
DANTE, Alighieri (1265-1321). La comedia . Venice: Francesco Marcolini for A. Vellutello, June 1544. 4° (226 x 152mm). Italic type, roman type for title, headings and headlines, text with commentary surrounding, shoulder notes in the prefatory matter, initial spaces with printed guide-letter, 87 woodcut illustrations, including 2 repetitions and 3 full-page blocks marking the opening of Inferno , Purgatorio and Pardiso , with 3 illustrations in the margin. (Title-page with paper repairs not touching text, preliminary leaves lightly dust soiled with a trace of spotting and very light staining, very occasional ink spots, wormhole repaired to margin G8-I2, lacking last blank.) Later vellum, spine titled in manuscript (lightly dust soiled). Provenance : Arrigoni de Treviglio (1789; signature on B3r); 2pp of bibliographic notes on 2ff bound at rear. FIRST EDITION EDITED AND WITH COMMENTARY BY ALESSANDRO VELLUTELLO, dedicated to Pope Paul III, with the extra text from canto ii of the Purgatorio printed in the lower margin of the recto of V7. THE FIRST USE OF THIS INFLUENTIAL SERIES OF WOODCUTS, which marked a revolutionary departure from the work of earlier artists. 'While the fifteenth-centruy blocks could serve as a quick reference for figures in the text, these 1544 blocks are an extension of the commentary, a more instructive for of illustration' (Mortimer). These same woodcuts went on to appear in the Sessa brothers' editions of 1564, 1578 and 1596, whilst 79 of the original 85 blocks were used again in Palazzi's Compendio della Comedia di Dante Alighieri (Venice: Albrizzi, 1696). They were also widely copied, appearing in editions by Rouillé (Lyons: 1551) and Morando (Venice: 1554).Adams D94; Mortimer Italian , 146; Sander 2328; Essling I:2, i, 545; Brunet II, 503 ('une des meilleures éditions anciennes de Dante').
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