Dante con l'espositioni di Christoforo Landino et d'Alessandro Vellvtello sopra la sua comedia dell' Inferno, del Purgatorio, & del Paradiso. : con tavole argomenti, & allegorie, & riformato, riveduto, & ridotto alla sua vera lettura, per Francesco Sansovino, fiorentino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Contributor:

Landino, Cristoforo, 1424-1504.

Vellutello, Alessandro.

Sansovino, Francesco, 1521-1586.

Rampazetto, Giovanni Antonio.

Sessa, Giovanni Battista, active 1546-1602, printer.

Sessa, Melchiorre, active 1546-1600, printer.

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

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

28 unnumbered leaves, 163 leaves, 4 unnumbered leaves, 164-392 leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

n-uo e-in e-di labe (3) 1578 (A)

Place of Publication:

Venetia : Appresso Giovambattista, Marchiò Sessa, et fratelli, 1578.

Notes:

"In Venetia, Appresso gli Heredi di Francesco Rampazetto. Ad instantia di Giovambattista, Marchio Sessa, et fratelli, 1578"--Colophon.

Woodcut title vignette (large portrait of Dante) ; head-pieces; initials.

Printer's device on verso of last leaf, and (variant) in head-pieces.

The illustrations are the same as those found in the 1544 Marcolini and 1564 Sessa edition.

Errors in foliation: 107, 288, 322, and 388 are numbered 103, 286, 320, and 288 respectively.

Dedication signed: Gio. Ant. Rampazetto.

Commentary in double column surrounds the text.

Signatures: a⁸ b⁶ c⁴ d¹⁰ A-V⁸ X¹² Y-3C⁸.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is from the Macauley Library.

Cited in:

Adams D 108

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 210

OCLC:

23876502