La comedia del divino Dante Alighieri da Firenze, con la esposizione di Giuseppe Lando Passerini da Cortona.

Accession number: 
PML 19678
Author: 
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Published: 
In Firenze : Appresso L. S. Olschki, 1911.
Description: 
3 p. l., [v]-xi, [1], 524 p., 1 l. : ill. ; 44 cm
Notes: 

Text within commentary. The preface by Gabriele d'Annunzio (reprinted with title "Comedia Dantis" in Corriere della sera XXXVI) takes the place of the "vita di Dante" which d'Annunzio had promised for this edition. cf. Olschki's Catalogo LXXV (1911) and Giornale dantesco 17 (1909) p. 225.
306 copies printed, of which six are on vellum.
Colophon: In nomine Domini amen. Cantica tertia & vltima Comœdiae Dantis Aligherii excellentissimi poetae florentini cum expositione Iosephi Landi Passerini civis cortonensis feliciter explicit. Quod opus--auspice Victorio Emmanvele III--formis expressit iuntinis in inclyta Florentiae civitate Laurentius Franceschini impensis & mandato Leonis S. Olschki, bybliopolae florent. anno post Christum natum undecimo supra millesimum noviesque centesimum ...
Title in red. Publisher's device on t.-p. (white on black) and on recto of last leaf (white on red). Illustrations reproduced from the edition Venice, B. Benali e Matthio da Parma, 1491 (full page woodcut and large initial at beginning of each cantica, vignette at the beginning of each canto). Initials. Watermark: portrait of Dante in center and date (Anno Domini MDCCCX) at foot of page alternating with publisher's device in center and Leo S. Olschki Firenze at foot of page.
Bound in stamped leather; clasps, bosses, portrait of Dante on front cover, publisher's device in bronze on back cover. Uncut edges. In the six copies printed on vellum the large initials and the names of coats of arms or ex-libris of the subscribers are illuminated in gold and colors by Amedeo Nesi; the clasps, bosses, etc., are in silver. One of the six copies is in the J.P. Morgan collection.

Binding: 
Brown morocco, metal corners & clasps, printed on vellum.
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