Pier Francesco Giambullari accademico fior. De'l sito, fórma, & misúre déllo Inférno di Dánte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giambullari, Pierfrancesco, 1495-1555.

Contributor:

Dorteláta, Néri, active 1544, printer.

Macauley Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Inferno.

Dante Alighieri.

Penn Provenance:

Macauley, Francis Campbell (donor)

Ganard (stamp)

Physical Description:

153 pages, 15 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

De'l sito, fórma, & misúre déllo Inférno di Dánte

Fingerprint:

eri- mea. gaue inCe (3) 1544 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Firénze : Per Néri Dorteláta, MDXLIIII [1544]

Notes:

Signatures: A-K⁸ L⁴.

Printer's device (Zappella 155) on title page; variant device on last page.

"A curious and very interesting treatise on the location, shape, and size of Dante's Inferno, illustrated with fanciful woodcuts. This volume is included among the books related to America, on the strenght of a woodcut representation of the earth on p. 18, which exhibits to the West of Ethiopia (Africa), a land with the inscription: "Terra incognita", and to the South: "Monte del Purgatoria". This work, by one of the founders of the famous Academy of La Crusca, is interesting to philologists, on account of the introduction of accents to indicate the pronunciation of the Florentines "-- Harrisse 260.

Includes index.

Errors in pagination: p. 91, 140, 141 wrongly numbered 81, 141, 140.

Register at end.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full red leather with gold-tooled triple-fillet borders; author, title and imprint stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; all edges gilt; red silk marker.

Culture Class Collection copy is from the Macauley Library.

Culture Class Collection copy has stamp with inscription "Ganard" on verso of front free endppaer.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookseller's description on verso of front free endpaper.

Cited in:

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 300

Fiske, W. Catalogue of the Dante collection, 1015 B 21

Adams G 589

OCLC:

84223237