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Comedy / translated by Robert & Jean Hollander ; illustrated by Monika Beisner.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio PQ4315 .H65 2007 [1]-[3]
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Divina commedia. English. (Hollander & Hollander)
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia--Illustrations.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri).
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes : color illustrations ; 32 cm
- Other Title:
- Divine comedy
- Place of Publication:
- Verona : Edizioni Valdonega, [2007]
- Contents:
- [1] Inferno
- [2] Purgatorio
- [3] Paradiso.
- Notes:
- "Monika Beisner : illuminating stories" by Marina Warner at end of volume [3].
- Extra suite of illustrations by Beisner has title: The one hundred illustrations by Monika Beisner for the Comedy of Dante Alighieri.
- "This English edition in three volumes of The Divine comedy by Dante Alighieri, translated by Robert and Jean Hollander, has been set in Centaur (VAL version) and printed in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies. The first seventy-five are accompanied by an extra suite of [100] illustrations numbered with roman numerals and boxed in a portfolio. The one hundred illustrations are by Monika Beisner. The paper is Gardapat Klassica by Cartiere del Garda. The books are bound in full cloth with a dust cover and are in cloth covered slipcase. The complete production has been carried out in Verona by Stamperia Valdonega Group"--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy is number 186 (the copy number supplied in manuscript in pencil) of a limited edition of 500 numbered copies. See colophon.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from Oak Knoll Books.
- Kislak Center copy: dust jackets retained; slip case retained.
- Contains:
- Beisner, Monika. One hundred illustrations by Monika Beisner for the Comedy of Dante Alighieri.
- Illuminating stories.
- Monika Beisner : illuminating stories.
- ISBN:
- 9788885033610
- 888503361X
- 9788885033603
- 8885033601
- OCLC:
- 1008190547
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