Comedia del diuino poeta Danthe Alighieri : con la dotta & leggiardra spositione di Christophoro Landino, con somma diligentia & accuratissimo studio nuouamente corretta, & emendata, da infiniti errori purgata, ac etiandio di vtilissime postille ornata : aggiunataui di nuouo vna copiosissima tauola, nellaquale si contengono lestorie, fauole, sententie, & le cose memorabili & degne di annotatione che in tutta l'opera se ritrouano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Contributor:

Landino, Cristoforo, 1424-1504.

Giolito de' Ferrari, Giovanni, -1539 or 1540, publisher.

Stagnino, Bernardino, -1540, printer.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Macauley Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Divina commedia

Language:

Italian

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 16th century.

Penn Provenance:

Bliss, William (autograph, 1878)

Librojo, Carlo Mossotti (autograph, 1877)

Macauley, Francis Campbell (donor)

Physical Description:

28 unnumbered leaves, 440 leaves : illustrations ; 22 cm (4to)

Manufacture:

In Vineggia : Per M. Bernardino Stagnino.

Other Title:

Comedia del divino poeta Danthe Alighieri

Fingerprint:

0297 9681 lao- este (3) 1536 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Vinegia : Ad instantia di M. Gioanni Giolitto da Trino, MDXXXVI [1536]

Notes:

"With the exception of the title and the 'Tavola,' this is a page for page reprint of the editions of 1512 and 1520. The illustrations are the same (except that the vignette and engraved ornamental fame work of the first page of the Inferno are omitted). The differences in the text ... are only of orthography."--Koch.

Date appears before place of publication on title leaf.

Printer's name from colophon on leaf ²E8r, which reads: In Vineggia per M. Bernardino Stagnino. M D XXXVI.

Signatures: 2[Maltese cross]¹² 2A-2B⁸ A-Z⁸ Et⁸ 2A-2Z⁸ 2[et]⁸ 2[con]⁸ 2[rum]⁸, ²A-E⁸.

Register on leaf ²E8r.

Error in imposition: the text of leaf 2G4v has been wrongly imposed on 2G5r and vice versa.

Woodcut title vignette (portrait of Dante), illustrations, initials and printer's device.

Initial spaces with guide letters.

Printed marginalia.

Text printed surrounded by commentary.

Following the text of the Commedia are 3 brief works attributed to Dante: Credo, Pater Nostro and Ave Maria.

Published in Venice.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound in full black leather with blind-tooled boards; 4 raised, blind-tooled bands on spine; brief title and place and date of publication stamped in gold on spine; ms. brief title (and shelf mark?) on fore-edge.

Penn Libraries copy has autographs of Carlo Mossotti Librojo ("Novara 1877.") and William Bliss ("Rome. April 1878.") on back free endpaper; effaced ms. inscription on back pastedown; a few ms. marginal marks in text.

Penn Libraries copy: front free endpaper wanting; leaf 2B1 mended at head outer corner.

Cited in:

EDIT 16 CNCE 1162

Adams D93

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 209

Koch, T.W. Cat. of Dante coll. presented by W. Fiske, I, p. 8

Related Work:

Landino, Cristoforo, 1424-1504. Comento di Christoforo Landino fiorentino sopra La comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino.

OCLC:

228707990