Description
Dante con l’espositione di Christophoro Landino, et di Alessandro Vellutello, sopra la sua comedia dell’Inferno, del Purgatorio, & del Paradiso. Con tavole, argomenti & allegorie, & riformato, riveduto & ridotto alla sua vera lettura, per Franc.Sansovino fiorentino
Leaves [28], 392 [i.e. 396]. At the end are 13 manuscript pages with Giovanni Gelli’s index from a 1636-7 edition. Woodcut portrait of Dante on title, from which the edition nickname of “Nasone”. 100 woodcut illustrations and historiated initials thoruhgout, woodcut printe’s device at colophon. Old dampstaining extending from margins, title repaired, 17th century marginalia throughout.
Comments:
First edition, edited by Francesco Sansovino, to include the commentaries of Landino and Vellutello together. The woodcuts are from the 1544 Marcolini edition.
