DANTE ALIGHIERI

COMEDIA DEL/DIVINO POETA DANTHE/Alighiero, con la dotta & leggiadra spositione di Christo-/phoro Landino: con somma diligentia & accu/rratissimo studio nuovamente corretta, /& emandata: da infinti errori pur/gata, ac etianio di utilissime/ pos

      Venice: Bernadino Stagnino, 1536. Full contemporary vellum with ODanteO in contemporary ink on spine. Third Stagnino edition The book has been reset and has been expertly restored-the titlepage has been repaired and the fore-edge of the fullpage woodcut has been remarginned. lacks 4 leaves (98,99,102,103). A very handsome copy, expertly restored, of a rare early edition of Dante. Quarto (205 x 148mm), ff. titlepage [1]and Tavola [11], secondary title-CANTICA/ DEL DIVINOPOE/TADANTHE/ ALIGHIERI FIOREN/TINO [1], and then OCOMMENTO DI CHRISTOPHORO LANDINO ...O[15], 440.#11;This collation concurs with the ORegistroO of gatherings on collophon One full page woodcut on A1, preceding the first canto, small woodcuts in text at the beginning of each canto. PrinterOs device on collophon below register. Titlepage has several signatures in contemporary ink,sporadic marginal notes in contemporary ink on first 30 leaves of Inferno. 3rd edition printed by Stagnino, a reprint of editions of 1512 &1520. #11;COPAC lists copies in British Library, Oxford, Edinburgh, 2 in Manchester and UCL (582)