1869 Rare Italian Vellum Pocket Book - La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy.
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(Description)
Author: Dante Alighieri.
Title: La Divina Commedia.
Publisher: Firenze, G. Barbèra, Editore, 1869.
Language: Text in Italian.
Size: small pocket 4 " X 3 ".
Pages: 604 pages.
Binding: Attractive and near fine original gilt decorated full vellum binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges are gilt.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing and toning - as shown).
Illustrations: Illustrated with a nice frontispiece portrait of Dante Alighieri.
Estimate: (Scarce with no or few other copies of this pocket edition available for sale worldwide).
The book: Very nice and attractive complete Italian pocket edition of the Divine Comedy in an elegant original vellum binding.
The author: Durante degli Alighieri simply called Dante (c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. It has been referred to as the greatest poem of the Middle Ages.