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DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321)

Lot 125
10.07.2024 10:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 125 | DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321)
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DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321)
Divina commedia, commentary by Jacopo della Lana, and corrections by Cristoforo Berardi. [Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, 1477.
Prime Minister William Gladstone’s copy of Dante’s Divine Comedy, the foundational work of Italian literature. This edition, the first to contain extensive commentary, is the seventh overall, following the first edition in 1472. ‘The text does not follow a single previous edition, and it seems likely that Berardi's independence (as a Pesarese) from northern Italy led him to use a manuscript’ (Richardson). The printer Vindelinus de Spira produced as many as fifty or sixty books in a period of less than three years between 1470 and 1472. At the very end of 1476, he set up a second press, from which this critical edition of Dante was one of the few productions, the press lasting only a few months before Vindelinus disappears from view. H 5942; GW 7964; BMC V, 248 (IB. 20577); IGI 358; Goff D-27; B. Richardson, Print Culture in Renaissance Italy, 1994.

Super-chancery folio (326 x 228mm). 360 leaves (of 376, lacking Boccaccio’s life of Dante). Printed in double column, title in later ink manuscript on recto of blank a1, many initials in ink manuscript (some marginal spotting and staining, heavier in final quire, marginal repairs to final few leaves affecting a few letters with final printed leaf window mounted). 18th-century vellum preserving older red morocco spine label lettered and decorated in gilt, edges blue (edges worn with some loss of vellum, minor holes to spine and spine label). Provenance: later Italian annotations in ink to verso of final text leaf – William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister (1809-1898; Hawarden Castle library label) – by descent to the present owner.
Artist:Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Auction house category:Books and manuscripts, Printed books
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