Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321). Comedia ... con la ... Spositione di Christoforo Landino. 4to, 440 leaves, Printed in Venice by Bernardino Stagnino, 1536. 8 1/2 by 6 inches and 2 inches thick in an early gilt decorated full leather binding which is heavily worn with the spine deteriorated; page edges gauffered. Adams D93. From the University of Notre Dame website: "This edition of 1536 was printed "ad instantia" (at the request) of Giovanni Giolito, head of the Giolito de' Ferrari family (active 1508-1523) and father of one of the most famous Venetian printers of the Renaissance, Gabriele Giolito. The familial relationship existing between Giovanni Giolito and Bernardino Stagnino is unclear; perhaps they were cousins. In any case, upon Bernardino Stagnino's death a part of his typographical equipment passed to Giovanni Giolitto and was eventually inherited by his son Gabriele. The colophon of this edition of the Divine Comedy with the Landino commentary no longer speaks of Pietro da Figino, whose text is used nevertheless. Instead, the title page insists rather noisily that the text has been "corrected and emended," despite the fact that the text is essentially unaltered from Stagnino's previous editions which were based upon the revised text of the 1490s. Consequently, the title page illustrates well the promotional value which title pages by this date increasingly assumed. What is essentially an old book is transformed by a new cover, and the addition of a 'table.' " The Comedy of the Divine Poet Dante Alighieri, with the learned and elegant exposition of Cristoforo Landino, with the greatest diligence and most accurate study newly corrected and emended: purged of infinite errors, and in addition adorned with extremely useful postils. There is also added a new and very abundant Table, in which are included the histories, fables, sentences, and things memorable and worthy of note which are found throughout the work. Condition: The binding quite worn and damaged; contents include smaller woodcut illustrations throughout. Missing the initial 12 leaves.
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321). Comedia ... con la ... Spositione di Christoforo Landino. 4to, 440 leaves, Printed in Venice by Bernardino Stagnino, 1536. 8 1/2 by 6 inches and 2 inches thick in an early gilt decorated full leather binding which is heavily worn with the spine deteriorated; page edges gauffered. Adams D93. From the University of Notre Dame website: "This edition of 1536 was printed "ad instantia" (at the request) of Giovanni Giolito, head of the Giolito de' Ferrari family (active 1508-1523) and father of one of the most famous Venetian printers of the Renaissance, Gabriele Giolito. The familial relationship existing between Giovanni Giolito and Bernardino Stagnino is unclear; perhaps they were cousins. In any case, upon Bernardino Stagnino's death a part of his typographical equipment passed to Giovanni Giolitto and was eventually inherited by his son Gabriele. The colophon of this edition of the Divine Comedy with the Landino commentary no longer speaks of Pietro da Figino, whose text is used nevertheless. Instead, the title page insists rather noisily that the text has been "corrected and emended," despite the fact that the text is essentially unaltered from Stagnino's previous editions which were based upon the revised text of the 1490s. Consequently, the title page illustrates well the promotional value which title pages by this date increasingly assumed. What is essentially an old book is transformed by a new cover, and the addition of a 'table.' " The Comedy of the Divine Poet Dante Alighieri, with the learned and elegant exposition of Cristoforo Landino, with the greatest diligence and most accurate study newly corrected and emended: purged of infinite errors, and in addition adorned with extremely useful postils. There is also added a new and very abundant Table, in which are included the histories, fables, sentences, and things memorable and worthy of note which are found throughout the work. Condition: The binding quite worn and damaged; contents include smaller woodcut illustrations throughout. Missing the initial 12 leaves.
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