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Alighieri, Dante
(Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri annotated by Torquato Tasso, 1830
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€ 400 - 600
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€ 400
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At auction on Thursday 21 November 2024 at 10:30
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Pisa, Didot, 1830. In 2°. 300 x 220 mm. Portraits of Dante and Tasso in ovals, embellishments, bound in its original hardback. One of 10 copies on large vellum paper, in burls and with closed sheets. On the back cover, glued ex libris by Ios. Cavalieri [Giuseppe Cavalieri, Ferrara].
Specialist Notes
FIRST EDITION WITH COMPARISONS BETWEEN TASSIAN POSTS.
"The Pisan edition of 1830 is of fine workmanship as one would expect from a publisher of the stature of Firmin Didot, known for the creation of new types of characters and for technical progress in the art of typography. It features full-page portraits, in copperplate engraving, of Dante and Tasso. (...) The Pisa 1830 edition is the first to propose a direct comparison between various Tasso annotations to the Divine Comedy. Its merit is that of easy consultation and agile comparison, page by page, between the annotations and glosses in relation to Dante's text". From the letter to readers: "«One will also find here and there a few proposed lessons, which deserve to be considered; just as the other few notes seem to me to be very worthy of consideration, from which one can see what Tasso's genius sometimes found human in the verses of the divine poet».
"The Pisan edition of 1830 is of fine workmanship as one would expect from a publisher of the stature of Firmin Didot, known for the creation of new types of characters and for technical progress in the art of typography. It features full-page portraits, in copperplate engraving, of Dante and Tasso. (...) The Pisa 1830 edition is the first to propose a direct comparison between various Tasso annotations to the Divine Comedy. Its merit is that of easy consultation and agile comparison, page by page, between the annotations and glosses in relation to Dante's text". From the letter to readers: "«One will also find here and there a few proposed lessons, which deserve to be considered; just as the other few notes seem to me to be very worthy of consideration, from which one can see what Tasso's genius sometimes found human in the verses of the divine poet».
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