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Alighieri, Dante
(Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321)
Works of the divine poet Danthe with his comments: recorrecti et with every diligence newly imprinted in cursive letter, 1512
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Venice, for miser Bernardino Stagnino from Trino de Monferra., 1512 on the 23rd of November. In 4°. Title page in red and black, in the centre image of St. Bernardino of Siena with radiant disk with Christ's monogram IHS and mitre at the bottom and top, within a frame, variant A according to Edit16 , missing full-page illustration at the beginning of the first Canticle, woodcut illustrations at the beginning of each canto, marginal browning but overall an excellent copy, CONTEMPORARY VENETIAN BINDING WITH DRY IMPRESSIONS AND GOLD DECORATIONS, GILT AND EMBOSSED CUTS , small defects and losses on the spine and covers.
Specialist Notes
This edition was printed in the elegant italic script of Bernardino Stagnino, founder of the Giolito family, who worked in Venice for over fifty years and was the first Piedmontese printer to have printed Dante. He reprinted it in 1520 and 1536. The decorative apparatus, in the first edition, consists of a woodcut frontispiece and 98 vignettes in the text, as well as a portrait of Bernardino of Siena on the title and the printer's mark on the last sheet. The woodcuts, inspired by the 1491 edition, are sometimes signed with the monograms C, CI, CC or PF. The title is printed in red and black; like the incipit (f. 2), it is decorated with a frame of four woodcuts.
Colomb de Batines, I, 69 – Brunet, II, 501 – Adams, D-87 – Sander, n°2320 – Mortimer, n°144; Mambelli, 23.
Colomb de Batines, I, 69 – Brunet, II, 501 – Adams, D-87 – Sander, n°2320 – Mortimer, n°144; Mambelli, 23.
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