1886 Fine Italian Vellum Book - La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy.
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Author: DANTE ALIGHIERI.
Title : La Divina Commedia. Col comento di Pietro Fraticelli. Nuova edizione con giunte e correzioni, arricchita del ritratto e de'cenni storici intorno al poeta, del rimario, d'un indice e di tre travole.
Publisher: Firenze, G. Barbera Editore, 1886.
Language: Text in Italian
Size: 7.5 " X 5 "
Pages: 723-CXXX pages
Binding: Attractive and Sumptuous Fine Florentine vellum binding, likely produced and gilt decorated by the workshop of Giulio Giannini (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges are red.
Content: Very good, near fine content (bright, tight, and clean, very rare light foxing - as shown, small bookseller stamp of George A. Cole English Bookseller in Florence on the first endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with a nice frontispiece portrait of Dante Alighieri and 3 plates at the beginning of each part of the Divine Comedy.
Estimate: (Scarce with no or few other copies of this beautiful binding in such a fine condition available for sale worldwide).
The book: Attractive complete Italian edition of the Divine Comedy in a beautiful 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.