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Vicenza: at the request of Francesco Leni, bookseller in Padoua, 1613. In the 16th. On the title page there is a mark of the double-tailed and crowned Siren, title page in typographical frame, small restoration on the internal margin of the title page with slight loss of the frame, SPECTACULAR PAINTED FLEXIBLE PARCHMENT BINDING with Virgil depicted on the upper plate, Dante on the spine , and Beatrice on the lower plate, within frames and with various decorations. Exemplary by Giuseppe Martini, as per the usual handwritten note in pencil, of which a piece of paper is preserved which reads "The pen drawings that decorate the binding are evidently executed in the style of the Pre-Raphaelite school, and perhaps they may be the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti". On the first flyleaf noble ex libris of Lord George John Warren Vernon on the flyleaf, with the motto "Vernon semper viret".
Specialist Notes
Very rare edition, highly sought after, being the first of only three editions of the Comedy published in the seventeenth century (the others came out in Venice and Padua in 1629). This incredible oblivion of the poet is clear testimony to the change in cultural taste in seventeenth-century Italy. In this edition the title of ''Vision'' appears for the first time in place of ''Divine Comedy'', which means ''the complex of things he saw in his mystical journey'' (Scartazini, Dante Encyclopedia, II, 2154).
Mambelli, 53; De Batines, I, 102: ''This title Visione, judged fantastic by Volpi, suits Dante's Poem perhaps better than that of the Comedy''. Cornell, I, p. 10: ''For the title Visione one may appeal to the poem itself in which it is twice expressly indicated as a vision, and indeed according to the poetic disposition of the matter, it is a vision. The vision of a pilgrimage through the three realms of the next world''.
Mambelli, 53; De Batines, I, 102: ''This title Visione, judged fantastic by Volpi, suits Dante's Poem perhaps better than that of the Comedy''. Cornell, I, p. 10: ''For the title Visione one may appeal to the poem itself in which it is twice expressly indicated as a vision, and indeed according to the poetic disposition of the matter, it is a vision. The vision of a pilgrimage through the three realms of the next world''.
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