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Florence, for Domenico Manzani, 1595. In 8°. Emblem of the Crusca on the title page, plate entitled "Profile, plan, and measurements of Dante's Inferno according to the description of the Florentine Antonio Manetti" folded, decorated headpieces and initials, slight stains but otherwise perfect copy, red calf binding with gold frame on the covers, title on green label on the spine, gilded edges. On the back cover ex libris by Francesco Riccardi del Vernaccia; by Baron Landau and on the title page stamp of the Galletti Library of Florence .
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SPLENDID EXAMPLE OF THE CRUSCA EDITION OF MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PROVENANCE: RICCARDI DEL VERNACCIA, LANDAU, GALLETTI .
First edition of the “Commedia” edited by the Florentine Accademia della Crusca. It was the first critical edition aimed at improving the Aldine Vulgate of 1502 and for over two centuries it remained a fundamental reference for subsequent reprints.
Origin: Francesco Maria Riccardi del Vernaccia. Son of Vincenzo and Ortensia del Vernaccia, marquis, chamberlain of the Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Tuscany, member of the Accademia dei Georgofili; he owes his humanistic education to the Scolopi fathers, first in Volterra and then in Siena. Thanks to the illustrious origins of his family, he manages to build an important library of over 6,000 volumes with several editions of incunabula.
First edition of the “Commedia” edited by the Florentine Accademia della Crusca. It was the first critical edition aimed at improving the Aldine Vulgate of 1502 and for over two centuries it remained a fundamental reference for subsequent reprints.
Origin: Francesco Maria Riccardi del Vernaccia. Son of Vincenzo and Ortensia del Vernaccia, marquis, chamberlain of the Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Tuscany, member of the Accademia dei Georgofili; he owes his humanistic education to the Scolopi fathers, first in Volterra and then in Siena. Thanks to the illustrious origins of his family, he manages to build an important library of over 6,000 volumes with several editions of incunabula.
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