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Florence, in the Ancora printing house, 1817-1819. In 2°. 490 x 320 mm. 4 vols. Vol. 1: [viii] 208 pp. and XLIV copperplates. Vol. 2: [iv] 210 [2] pp. and XL copperplates. Vol. 3: [iv] 206 [2] pp. and XLI copperplates. Vol. 4: [iv] xi [1] 251 [1] pp. Copperplate portrait of Dante on the three frontispieces, light marginal foxing, half leather and cardboard binding. Ex-libris with the motto "Adversis perfugium, secundis ornamentum" by the Sicilian historian and paleographer, Raffaele Starrabba (1834-1906).
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A fine copy of the renowned Ancora edition of the Divine Comedy, complete with 125 splendid copperplate engravings by Luigi Ademollo, Vincenzo Benucci, Emilio Lapi, Giovanni Paolo Lasinio, and Giovanni Masselli, based on drawings by Luigi Ademollo (or Adamolli, or Adamolli) for Inferno and Purgatory, and by Francesco Nenci for Paradise . “The latter's purist inspiration makes the illustration of the third Canticle particularly refined and graceful, with figures with sweet faces and dancing movements, and with recurring circular decorative motifs, large and varied, containing stars and rayed suns.” ( A Journey Long Seven Hundred Years. Images for the Divine Comedy , Crema Civic Museum 2021, no. 7). The fourth volume contains Leonardo Bruni's life of Dante, a Treatise on the Form, Position, and Measurement of Hell, an allegory of the Divine Comedy, and annotations on the three canticles. One of the most refined editions of the Sacred Poem.
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