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Dante Alighieri

(Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321)

The Landian Code of the Divine Comedy, 1921

Estimate

€ 100 - 120

Sold

€ 128

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Florence, Olschki, 1921. & nbsp; 500 x 350 mm. Preface and introduction by A.Balsamo and G.Bertoni. Full leather binding with dry impressions. 

Specialist Notes

Reproduction of the Landiano Codex 190, considered the oldest manuscript with certain date, 1336, of the Divine Comedy, currently preserved at the Passerini-Landi Municipal Library of Piacenza. Together with the Comedy it also contains  Dante's "The sweet rhymes of love ch'io solia", some sonnets by  Guittone d'Arezzo and some chapters made by  Bosone from Gubbio and  Iacopo Alighieri who provide a sort of summary of the work. The colophon shows the identity of the copyist, Antonio da Fermo who declares that the work was commissioned by Beccario Beccaria.