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Alighieri, Dante
Dante with the site and form of the Inferno taken from the same description of the poet, 1515
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Venice, Aldo Manuzio and Andrea Torresano, 1515. In 8°. Typographical devices on the title page, on page 1 and on the last page, two with the name Aldo and one with Aldus. a double-page woodcut depicting Hell, a double-page classification of sins in Hell and a full-page classification of sins in Purgatory. some pages with wormholes, partly restored. 19th-century calf binding. Spine with five raised bands. Red edges. Front cover bearing the ex libris "Daniel Giles" on the back cover.
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Famous second Aldine edition of the text of the Comedy, considered by bibliographers to be even rarer than the first edition of 1502 edited by Bembo.
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