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Venice, for Bartholomeo de Zanni da Portese, 1507 adi XVII de zugno. In 2°. Superbly illustrated with a splendid full-page woodcut within a historiated border at the opening of the Inferno and 99 smaller woodcuts in the text, attributed to the Master of Pico Plinio, numerous black and white woodcut initials of various sizes, marginal halos, but overall a stunning fresh copy, ORIGINAL VENETIAN BINDING WITH DRY IMPRESSIONS AND GOLD DECORATIONS ON THE PLATES , gilded and embossed edges, delicate restorations to the upper cap and headband.
Specialist Notes
Despite the use of the traditional incunabula layout and the inclusion of Landino's commentary of 1481, the text of the Comedy in this singular edition is already that of the famous Aldine edition of 1502, philologically supervised by Pietro Bembo. Most of the woodcuts come from the Benalius-Capcasa edition printed on 3 March 1491 (except for the one illustrating Paradiso I, which comes from the de Plasiis edition of 18 November 1491), and are attributed to the Maestro del Pico Plinio, a prolific illuminator whose miniatures appear in a large number of manuscripts and incunabula dated from 1464 to 1494.
This edition also includes three small pieces: the Italian translations of the prayers “Ave Maria”, “Credo” and “Pater Noster”, attributed (most likely spuriously) to Dante.
Adams D-86; Batines I, p.68-9; Essling 435; Mambelli 22; Sander 2319; Olschki, Choix 4389; Panzer VIII, p.384-5.
This edition also includes three small pieces: the Italian translations of the prayers “Ave Maria”, “Credo” and “Pater Noster”, attributed (most likely spuriously) to Dante.
Adams D-86; Batines I, p.68-9; Essling 435; Mambelli 22; Sander 2319; Olschki, Choix 4389; Panzer VIII, p.384-5.
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