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Alighieri, Dante
(Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri with various annotations and copious adorned copperplates, 1757
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€ 15.000 - 20.000
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At auction on Thursday 21 November 2024 at 10:30
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Venice, at Antonio Zatta, 1757-1758. iN 4°. 5 vols. 306 x 220 mm. COPY ON BLUE PAPER , with the plates printed in various shades of red, blue, green and black .
Contemporary binding in hard parchment with title on a red label on the spine.
Specialist Notes
SPECTACULAR EXAMPLE ON BLUE PAPER, WITH PLATES PRINTED IN DIFFERENT COLORS.
First collection of all of Dante's works, among the most sumptuous ever printed and composed of three volumes dedicated to the Divine Comedy, and a fourth volume that includes the Vita Nova, the Convito, the Volgare Eloquenza, the Sette Psalmi Penitenziali and the De Monarchia, with copious and erudite additions. In this edition published for the first time, La difesa di Dante by Gaspare Gozzi (1713-1786) appears in which, against the censures addressed to Dante by Bettinelli, he understood the unity of the Comedy, the Venetian man of letters identified Dante as the protagonist of the poem and supported the need to judge him by referring to the conditions of the times in which the work was written (which Bettinelli had accused of obscenity). The work is enriched by Baroque-style copper engravings that make this edition, dedicated to Elizabeth Petrowna (1709-1762), daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I, as well as the first illustrated after the one published in 1596, one of the richest works in illustrations ever. The main authors of the drawings for the engravings were Fontebasso (1709-1769), Zompini (1700-1778), Diziani (1689-1767) Guarana (1720-1808), all from the entourage of Sebastiano Ricci, and Michelangelo Schiamone (1712-1772), an author with a distinctly Tiepolo-esque inspiration.
First collection of all of Dante's works, among the most sumptuous ever printed and composed of three volumes dedicated to the Divine Comedy, and a fourth volume that includes the Vita Nova, the Convito, the Volgare Eloquenza, the Sette Psalmi Penitenziali and the De Monarchia, with copious and erudite additions. In this edition published for the first time, La difesa di Dante by Gaspare Gozzi (1713-1786) appears in which, against the censures addressed to Dante by Bettinelli, he understood the unity of the Comedy, the Venetian man of letters identified Dante as the protagonist of the poem and supported the need to judge him by referring to the conditions of the times in which the work was written (which Bettinelli had accused of obscenity). The work is enriched by Baroque-style copper engravings that make this edition, dedicated to Elizabeth Petrowna (1709-1762), daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I, as well as the first illustrated after the one published in 1596, one of the richest works in illustrations ever. The main authors of the drawings for the engravings were Fontebasso (1709-1769), Zompini (1700-1778), Diziani (1689-1767) Guarana (1720-1808), all from the entourage of Sebastiano Ricci, and Michelangelo Schiamone (1712-1772), an author with a distinctly Tiepolo-esque inspiration.
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