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Alighieri, Dante
(Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321)
The Vision. Dante Alighieri's poem divided into Hell, Purgatory, Paradise. Again with all diligence reprinted., 1613
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Vicenza, Francesco Leni, 1613. In 16th. Italics, title within an ornate wood-engraved frame, minor defects, 19th-century half leather binding, title and decorations in gold on the spine.
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Extremely rare edition, highly sought after, despite typographical incorrectness, as it represents the first of only three editions of the Comedy published in the seventeenth century, together with those printed in Venice and Padua in 1629. It is a very small number of editions compared to previous centuries, which denotes a regressive trend in the fortune of Dante's work, destined to persist until the beginning of the eighteenth century. In this edition, which marks the return to typographical essentiality, being devoid of comments and illustrations, the title of "Vision" appears for the first time instead of Divine Comedy, which means "the complex of things he saw in the mystical his journey” (Scartazzini, Enciclopedia Dantesca, II, 2154). De Batines I, pp. 101-102; Mambelli, n. 53.
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