Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta diuino / co[n] l'espositione di Christophoro La[n]dino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Contributor:

Landino, Cristoforo, 1424-1504, editor.

Burgofranco, Jacobus de, -1538 or 1539, printer.

Giunta, Luca-Antonio, 1457-1538, publisher.

Macauley Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Divina commedia

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Italian language.

Penn Provenance:

Macauley, Francis Campbell (bookplate) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

De Coverly, R. (Roger), b. 1831 (binder's stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered leaves, CCXCV leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations (woodcuts), portrait ; 31 cm (folio)

Edition:

Nuouame[n]te impressa e con somma dilige[n]tia reuista [et] eme[n]data [et] & di nuouissime postille adornata.

Fingerprint:

o.a, i.tp ero- cich (3) 1529 (R)

Place of Publication:

Sta[m]pato in Venetia : Per Iacob del Burgofra[n]co, Pauese, ad insta[n]tia del nobile messere Lucantonio giun]ta, Fiore[n]tino, nellanno de nostro signor. M.D.XXIX. A di XXIII. di genaro.

Notes:

Place of printing, printer and publisher from colophon, which reads: "Sta[m]pato in Venetia per Iacob del Burgofra[n]co, Pauese. Ad insta[n]tia del nobile messere Lucantonio Giu[n]ta fiore[n]tino. Nellanno del nostro signor M.D.XXIX a di XXIII di Genaro [23 Jan. 1529]."

Text is based on the 1502 Aldine octavo edition, according to P. Colomb de Batines, Bibliografia dantesca, v. 1, p. 79-81.

Signatures: 2A-2B⁶ a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-L⁸ (L8 blank).

Woodcuts: four-panel architectural title page featuring portraits on left of great classical authors such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucretius, and Terence, and great Italian authors on right, including Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio; below are portraits of the Muses, flanking the large red Giunta lily device; full-page portrait of Dante on verso of title page; text illustrated throughout with 99 woodcuts, three of which are large blocks appearing at beginning of the three sections "Inferno," "Purgatorio," and "Paradiso."

The first canto of each cantica is marked by a large woodcut; the other cantos by vignettes. These illustrations first appeared in the Venetian edition printed by Bernardino Benali and Matthio da Parma in March 1491, and were also used, with slight changes, in the editions of November 1491, of 1493, 1507, 1529, and were reproduced in the Milan edition of Witte's text, 1864-66.

"The illustrations are interesting both in their origin and subsequent history. Those to Inf. I-XIX are apparently based upon the plates in the edition of 1481, and so have a certain connection with Botticelli's drawings. The fact that their resemblance ceases after Inf. XIX is a proof that the designer of these woodcuts had access to the engravings of 1481 but not to Botticelli's original drawings."--Cornell Dante catalogue, sub edition of March, 1491, q.v. for further account of both originals and copies.

Title-page printed in red and black; text in large roman type, surrounded on three sides by commentary in smaller roman type.

Leaf CCXCV contains the supposititious Credo, Pater Nostro and Ave Maria of Dante.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound by Roger de Coverly in full brown leather with gold-tooled panel; gold-tooled central and corner ornaments; author, title and imprint stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled designs on spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; all edges gilt.

Culture Class Collection copy has binder's stamp of Roger de Coverly (b. 1831) on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy is from the Macauley Library.

Cited in:

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent., no. 145

Camerini, P. Annali dei Giunti, v. 1, no. 328

Sander, M. Livre à figures italien, 2326

Adams D-92

EDIT16 CNCE 1159

OCLC:

8340205