Dante con l'espositioni di Christoforo Landino et d'Alessandro Vellutello sopra la sua Comedia dell'Inferno, del Purgatorio, & del Paradiso : con tauole, argomenti, & allegorie; & riformato, riueduto, & ridotto alla sua vera lettura / per Francesco Sansouino Fiorentino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Contributor:

Sansovino, Francesco, 1521-1586, editor.

Landino, Cristoforo, 1424-1504.

Vellutello, Alessandro.

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

Nicolini, Domenico, da Sabbio, printer.

Giovanni Battista Sessa & fratelli, 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

Subjects (All):

Future life--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Future life.

Christian poetry, Italian--Early works to 1800.

Christian poetry, Italian.

Epic poetry, Italian--Early works to 1800.

Epic poetry, Italian.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Huygens, Constantijn, 1596-1687 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

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

Physical Description:

28 unnumbered leaves, 163 leaves, 4 unnumbered leaves, 164-392 leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm

Fingerprint:

nii- e-in heor labe (3) 1596 (A)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia, : Appresso Gio. Battista, & Gio. Bernardo Sessa, fratelli, 1596.

Notes:

Title page vignette (portrait of Dante); head-pieces, initials, printer's device depicting a cat with initials "MS" and motto "Imparibus dissidii satis" on verso of last leaf.

Dante's text surrounded by commentary by Landino and Vellutello, in double columns.

Colophon at foot of leaf 3C8v reads: In Venetia, MDXCVI. Appresso Domenico Nicolini. Ad instanza di Gio. Battista, & Gio. Bernardo Sessa, fratelli.

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

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full parchment; author, title and imprint stamped in gold on spine; all edge blue.

Culture Class Collection copy is from the Macauley Library.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. ownership inscription "Constanter 1650", from the library of Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687), on title page. Constantijn Huygens was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer; he was secretary to two Princes of Orange: Frederick Henry and William II, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens. His personal library is said to have been half the size of that of the King of France. The smaller part of his library, that in total counted approximately 8.000 books, was sold in the 1688 auction after he had died.

Cited in:

Fiske, W. Catalogue of the Dante collection, 1012 G 50

Adams D111

EDIT 16 CNCE 1181

OCLC:

228675455