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DANTE ALIGHIERI [Divina Commedia], Venice, Domenico Nicolino, for Giovanni Battista and Melchiore Sessa and brothers, 1564 image 1
DANTE ALIGHIERI [Divina Commedia], Venice, Domenico Nicolino, for Giovanni Battista and Melchiore Sessa and brothers, 1564 image 2
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DANTE ALIGHIERI
[Divina Commedia], Venice, Domenico Nicolino, for Giovanni Battista and Melchiore Sessa and brothers, 1564

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London, Knightsbridge

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DANTE ALIGHIERI

[Divina Commedia], commentary by Christoforo Landino and Alessandro Vellutello, edited by Francesco Sansovino, title with large woodcut portrait of Dante within elaborate framework, text in italic with commentary surround in roman type, 95 woodcut illustrations (one full-page), printer's device at end, modern vellum, title and following 2 leaves on early paper stub, title with short tear resulting in loss of one letter imprint (the second "e" of "Venetia"), and with seventeenth century inscriptions, some dampstaining (quite heavy to approximately 40 leaves), old morocco spine label [Adams D103; Mortimer Harvard Italian 148], folio (300 x 210mm.), Venice, Domenico Nicolino, for Giovanni Battista and Melchiore Sessa and brothers, 1564

Footnotes

The first Sansovino edition of Dante's "Divine Comedy", and the first to include the commentaries of Landino and Vellutello together. The portrait of Dante is new to this edition. The woodcuts were cut for Francesco Marcolini's 1544 edition, and were used again by the Sessa brothers for their 1578 and 1596 editions of Dante.

Provenance: L. Palladio, ownership inscription dated 1661 on title (recto and verso); his son, Alexandro, ownership inscription dated 1695 on title.

Saleroom notices

should read "nineteenth century vellum, light soiling, marbled paste-down endpapers"

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