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  • Publication: ComediaPublication Record # 413888
  • Author: Dante Alighieri
  • Date: 1529-01-23
  • Publisher: Lucantonio Giunta
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Notes:
    • Commentary by Christophoro Landino.
    • The woodcuts are repeated from the 1491 Benalius & Capasa edition. According to Essling this is their last appearance.
    • The attached photo is of the title page.
    • Includes a woodcut portrait of Dante, and this is the first edition of Dante to include his portrait.
    • Christie's: "300 x 205 mm. Title printed in red and black within woodcut architectural border, the side-pieces containing portraits of the five great Latin poets on the left and the Italian poets on the right, the lower panel contains the figures of the nine muses, each playing a different musical instrument; full-page woodcut portrait of Dante on title verso; and 99 woodcuts in the text."
    • Data from Christie's Auction House.
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