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Alighieri, Dante

(Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321)

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 1795

Estimate

€ 12.000 - 14.000

Sold

€ 12.690

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Parma, in the royal palace with Bodoni types, 1795. In 2°. 3 vols. 460 x 315 mm. Perfect copy, in margins , on large paper and in its original Bodoni hardback. Provenance: Giuseppe Martini .


Specialist Notes

BEAUTIFUL COPY ON STRONG PAPER, WITH BEADS.

The edition is dedicated to Lodovico di Borbone, crown prince of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, and was conducted with the care of the philologist and librarian Giovanni Jacopo Dionisi who places his critical additions at the end of each canticle.
Mambelli, 81: "Magnificent edition, rare and sought after, of which only 130 copies were printed (25 in f. maximum)".
Brooks, n. 588 ; De Lama, vol. 2, p. 104.

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