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- co[n] l'espositione di Christophoro La[n]dino
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- Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta Fiorentino
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- Nuouame[n]te impressa: e con somma dilige[n]tia reuista & eme[n]data: & di nuouissime postille adornata
- [Venice] : [Jacobus de Burgofranco for Luca-Antonio Giunta], MDXXIX [1529]
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- [12], CCXCV, [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts), portrait ; 31 cm (fol.)
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- ocm08340205, ocm08340205
- 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 (see Colomb de Batines, Paul. Bibliografia dantesca).
- Signatures: 2A⁶-2B⁶, a⁸-z⁸, &⁸, [con]⁸, [rum]⁸, A⁸-L⁸.
- Last leaf (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.
- The commentary includes, on 2B4v-2B6r, Ad Dantem gratulatio, in Italian and Latin, by Marsilio Ficino and the 'Sito forma, et misura dello 'nferno' of Antonio Manetti..
- Leaf CCXCV contains the supposititious Credo, Pater Nostro and Ave Maria of Dante.
- Colomb de Batines, Paul. Bibliografia dantesca, volume 1, pages 79-81.
- Harvard College Library. Catalogue of books and manuscripts. Italian 16th century books, no. 145
- Giunti tipografi editori di Firenze, 1497-1570, volume 1, no. 328
- Sander, M. Livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'à 1530, 2326
- Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, D-92
- EDIT 16, CNCE 1159