1889 Rare Italian Book - La Divina Commedia di DANTE ALIGHIERI - Divine Comedy.

 

Author: DANTE ALIGHIERI.
Title: La Divina Commedia con Note tratte dai Migliori Commenti per cura di Eugenio Camerini. Edizione stereotipa. Sesta tiratura. (Complete in 3 volumes bound in one).
Publisher: Milano: Edoardo Sonzogno, 1889.
Language: Text in Italian.
Size: 7 " X 5 ".
Pages: 430 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good quarter leather binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed, initials E.T.M. at the bottom of the spine - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. 
Content: Very good content (tight and clean, rare light foxing and toning - as shown, signature of a previous owner on the title page - as shown).

The book: Nice and attractive complete Italian edition of the Divine Comedy in a beautiful quarter leather binding. The Divine Comedy is a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered to be the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

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.