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Venice, by Nicolo Misserini, 1629. In 24°. Portrait of Dante within an elaborate frame on the frontispiece, 19th century binding in half leather and marbled cardboard.
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Third and last edition of the Comedy published in the 17th century. The volume is printed in the innovative and compact “24mo long” format invented by Alessandro Paganini. From a textual point of view, the edition follows the Comedy of 1613, published by the Vicenza printer Francesco Leni with the title La Visione . Dante's poem is therefore presented without any commentary or encomiastic text or woodcut, apart from the arguments and allegories of Lodovico Dolce and the Table of the most obscure words used by Dante, taken from the Comedy published in 1554-1555 by Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari. However, rather than using the 1613 title of La Visione - which Donato Pasquardi adopted for the second seventeenth-century edition, published in Padua, also in 1629 - Misserini sticks to the traditional title of Divina Commedia. Batines I, p. 102; Mambelli 55; U. Limentani, “Dante's fortune in the seventeenth century”, Studi secenteschi, 5 (1964), pp. 3-49.
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