1839 Rare Italian Vellum Book set - La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy.
(Description)
Author: Dante Alighieri. Paolo Costa, notes.
Title: La Divina Commedia. Con note di Paolo Costa.
Publisher: Firenze, Dalla Tipografia Cardinali, 1839. Complete set of 3 volumes.
Language: Text in Italian.
Size: 5.5" X 3.5".
Pages: xx-319, 384, 364 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good beautiful contemporary vellum binding with gilt decorations on the spine. Titles on spine in red and black Morocco labels, gilt tooling (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing or staining, name and ink stamp of previous owners on the endpapers, first blank page and upper margin of title page - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the engraved frontispiece depicting a scene from Dante’s Inferno, featuring Virgil guiding Dante.
Estimate: (Scarce with no or few other copies of this edition available for sale worldwide).
The book: A finely bound 1839 edition of Dante’s masterpiece La Divina Commedia, with scholarly annotations by Paolo Costa. This three-volume set was published in Florence and includes extensive commentary and interpretations that offer rich insights into Dante’s epic poem. This edition is a significant literary and historical artifact, capturing Dante's narrative journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
The author: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy is considered one of the greatest works of world literature. Dante’s vivid descriptions of the afterlife, infused with complex theological and philosophical reflections, have had a profound impact on the Western literary canon.