ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)] — DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). La Commedia . Commentary by Cristoforo Landino (1424-1504); commendations by Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499). Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 30 August 1481.
ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)] — DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). La Commedia . Commentary by Cristoforo Landino (1424-1504); commendations by Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499). Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 30 August 1481. Royal 2° (400 x 257mm). Collation: p8 2p6 (p1 blank, p2r Landino's introduction, 2p3v Ficino's commendations, 2p6 blank; a10 b8 c-e10 f8 g10 h-i8 l10 m-n8 o-r10 s6 (a1 blank, a2r Inferno text and commentary); aa-gg10 hh12 ll-mm10 oo6 (aa1 blank, aa2r Landino's prologue to Purgatorio , aa3r Purgatorio ); A8 B-H10 I6 L12 (A1r Landino's prologue to Paradiso , verso blank, A2r Paradiso , L10v colophon, L11-12 blanks). 365 leaves (of 372, without blanks and lacking p6 and d2). 60 (or fewer) lines of commentary surrounding text, and headline. Type: 4b:115R (text), 5:91R (commentary). 2- to 16-line initial spaces, most with printed guide-letter, most cantos preceded by a large space for an engraved or illuminated illustration. Flourished opening initial to Canto Primo supplied in dark ink in the 17th or 18th century, printing error on ff6v rendering last two lines illegible. (The 3 engravings on a1r, b1v and c1v cut out with consequent loss to text on rectos of b1 and c1; a1 cut down and remargined, the affected text on b1r and c1r plus one line on c1v supplied in manuscript and the leaves remargined; some soiling heavier on first and last leaves, first leaf frayed and with small repairs at gutter, blank corner of a7 cut, aa10 torn and repaired with loss to a few words, worming in first and last 20 leaves and in quires a-c, small hole in h1 catching 2 letters, some staining, browning and spotting.) 17th-century calf over pasteboard, sides panelled with double gilt fillet and blind fillets, large central gilt monogram (undeciphered), speckled edges (rebacked in the 19th century with richly gilt calf backstrip, corners restored, covers scuffed and rubbed). Provenance : early price or payment record on last page (deleted) — Dr. Gaetano Polidori (1764-1853), playwright, translator, printer, book collector (inscriptions on front pastedown dated 1800?, 1819 and 1820, 1853 presentation inscription to his grandson, ‘Dati a Dante Gabriel Rossetti suo [pro?]nipote Pittore e Poeta 11th February 1853’) — Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), painter and poet — sold on 18 April 2000 for $10,575 in The Nakles Collection of Incunabula at Christie's New York (lot 138). DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI’S COPY of the first edition with Landino's commentary and first Florentine edition. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's maternal grandfather Gaetano Polidori served as secretary to Vittorio Alfieri before moving to London, where he taught Italian, wrote plays and instructional works including a trilingual dictionary and an Italian grammar, translated Milton, Byron, and Lucanus into Italian (1840-41), and operated his own printing press, upon which he printed in 1807 his 17-year-old grandaughter Christina Rossetti's first book of poems. His daughter Frances Mary Polidori had married the exiled Italian patriot and Dante scholar Gabriel Charles Rossetti, who attempted to revive an esoteric anti-papal interpretation of the Divine Comedy ; thus their four children grew up in an atmosphere imbued by Dante and three of them (William Michael, Maria Francesca, and Dante Gabriel) went on to produce translations or critical studies of the poet. Dante's poetry remained a rich source of images and an object of study throughout the literary and artistic life of Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, who later changed the order of his name to stress his affinity with his namesake. His paintings Beata Beatrix and Dante's Dream are among his best known; and his translation of La Vita Nuova in his collection The Early Italian Poets (1861) ranks as one of his principal literary achievements. When the present copy of the Commedia was given to him in early 1853 by his grandfather, who died in December of the same year, Dante Gabriel had already completed much of the transla
ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)] — DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). La Commedia . Commentary by Cristoforo Landino (1424-1504); commendations by Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499). Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 30 August 1481.
ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)] — DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). La Commedia . Commentary by Cristoforo Landino (1424-1504); commendations by Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499). Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 30 August 1481. Royal 2° (400 x 257mm). Collation: p8 2p6 (p1 blank, p2r Landino's introduction, 2p3v Ficino's commendations, 2p6 blank; a10 b8 c-e10 f8 g10 h-i8 l10 m-n8 o-r10 s6 (a1 blank, a2r Inferno text and commentary); aa-gg10 hh12 ll-mm10 oo6 (aa1 blank, aa2r Landino's prologue to Purgatorio , aa3r Purgatorio ); A8 B-H10 I6 L12 (A1r Landino's prologue to Paradiso , verso blank, A2r Paradiso , L10v colophon, L11-12 blanks). 365 leaves (of 372, without blanks and lacking p6 and d2). 60 (or fewer) lines of commentary surrounding text, and headline. Type: 4b:115R (text), 5:91R (commentary). 2- to 16-line initial spaces, most with printed guide-letter, most cantos preceded by a large space for an engraved or illuminated illustration. Flourished opening initial to Canto Primo supplied in dark ink in the 17th or 18th century, printing error on ff6v rendering last two lines illegible. (The 3 engravings on a1r, b1v and c1v cut out with consequent loss to text on rectos of b1 and c1; a1 cut down and remargined, the affected text on b1r and c1r plus one line on c1v supplied in manuscript and the leaves remargined; some soiling heavier on first and last leaves, first leaf frayed and with small repairs at gutter, blank corner of a7 cut, aa10 torn and repaired with loss to a few words, worming in first and last 20 leaves and in quires a-c, small hole in h1 catching 2 letters, some staining, browning and spotting.) 17th-century calf over pasteboard, sides panelled with double gilt fillet and blind fillets, large central gilt monogram (undeciphered), speckled edges (rebacked in the 19th century with richly gilt calf backstrip, corners restored, covers scuffed and rubbed). Provenance : early price or payment record on last page (deleted) — Dr. Gaetano Polidori (1764-1853), playwright, translator, printer, book collector (inscriptions on front pastedown dated 1800?, 1819 and 1820, 1853 presentation inscription to his grandson, ‘Dati a Dante Gabriel Rossetti suo [pro?]nipote Pittore e Poeta 11th February 1853’) — Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), painter and poet — sold on 18 April 2000 for $10,575 in The Nakles Collection of Incunabula at Christie's New York (lot 138). DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI’S COPY of the first edition with Landino's commentary and first Florentine edition. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's maternal grandfather Gaetano Polidori served as secretary to Vittorio Alfieri before moving to London, where he taught Italian, wrote plays and instructional works including a trilingual dictionary and an Italian grammar, translated Milton, Byron, and Lucanus into Italian (1840-41), and operated his own printing press, upon which he printed in 1807 his 17-year-old grandaughter Christina Rossetti's first book of poems. His daughter Frances Mary Polidori had married the exiled Italian patriot and Dante scholar Gabriel Charles Rossetti, who attempted to revive an esoteric anti-papal interpretation of the Divine Comedy ; thus their four children grew up in an atmosphere imbued by Dante and three of them (William Michael, Maria Francesca, and Dante Gabriel) went on to produce translations or critical studies of the poet. Dante's poetry remained a rich source of images and an object of study throughout the literary and artistic life of Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, who later changed the order of his name to stress his affinity with his namesake. His paintings Beata Beatrix and Dante's Dream are among his best known; and his translation of La Vita Nuova in his collection The Early Italian Poets (1861) ranks as one of his principal literary achievements. When the present copy of the Commedia was given to him in early 1853 by his grandfather, who died in December of the same year, Dante Gabriel had already completed much of the transla
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