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Florence, Nicolò di Lorenzo dalla Magna, 1481. In 2°. 416 x 285 mm. Two illustrations in the text at the beginning of the cantos of the Inferno, one on f. a1 and the other on f. b1, by Baccio Baldini based on DRAWINGS BY BOTTICELLI, first and last fascicle with shorter f. perhaps from another copy, marginal restorations on some f., SPLENDID BINDING OF THE ARMS OF THE MARQUIS GIROLAMO D'ADDA , signed Binda (Milan), with gold decorations on the covers and spine, later perhaps merged with that of the English bibliophile Charles Fairfax Murray; noble coat of arms printed on the first and last f. by WALTER ASHBURNER , Florence.
Specialist Notes
The monumental first Florentine edition of the Comedy in a stunning copy with wide margins and illustrious provenance. The edition strongly desired by Lorenzo the Magnificent to celebrate his power, not only cultural, in fifteenth-century Italy. Cristoforo Landino's commentary appears here for the first time and will be supplanted only in the nineteenth century by Carducci's paraphrase. The 1481 edition represents the first complete attempt to provide an organic and exhaustive commentary on Dante's text. Born under the aegis of Lorenzo the Magnificent, the typographical enterprise was conducted superbly, for an edition that wanted to present itself as the "political" homage of Lorenzo and Florence to their great literary tradition. The print run of the work must have reached 1200 copies, according to a letter from Landino to Bembo in 1483 where this figure is indicated. There are copies known with a variable number of engravings, on average between 2-3, copies containing a higher number are very rare.
BMC VI 628; Goff D 29; GW 7966; Hain *5946; IGI 360; Sander 2311.
BMC VI 628; Goff D 29; GW 7966; Hain *5946; IGI 360; Sander 2311.
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