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Venice, for Bartholomeo de Zanni da Portese, 1507, 17th century. In 2nd volume. Superbly illustrated with a splendid full-page woodcut within a historiated border at the beginning of the Inferno and 99 smaller woodcuts in the text, attributed to the Maestro del Pico Plinio, numerous black-and-white woodcut initials of various sizes, first leaf facsimile, the following 5 with redone margins, marginal browning, 19th-century binding with gilt boards, worn. Annotated.
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Despite the use of the traditional incunabula layout and the inclusion of Landino's 1481 commentary, the text of the Divine Comedy in this unique edition is already that of the celebrated Aldine edition of 1502, philologically supervised by Pietro Bembo. Most of the woodcuts are from the Benalius-Capcasa edition printed on March 3, 1491 (except for the one illustrating Paradiso I, which comes from the de Plasiis edition of November 18, 1491), and are attributed to the Maestro del Pico Plinio, a prolific illuminator whose miniatures appear in a large number of manuscripts and incunabula dating from 1464 to 1494. This edition also includes three additions: the Italian translations of the prayers “Ave Maria,” “Credo,” and “Pater Noster,” attributed (most likely spuriously) to Dante. Adams D-86; Batines I, pp.68-9; Essling 435; Mambelli 22; Sander 2319; Olschki, Choix 4389; Panzer VIII, pp.384-5.
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