DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). La Comedia . Edited and with commentary by Alessandro Vellutello. Venice: Francesco Marcolini for A. Vellutello, June 1544.
DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). La Comedia . Edited and with commentary by Alessandro Vellutello. Venice: Francesco Marcolini for A. Vellutello, June 1544. 4 o (234 x 158 mm). Italic type, roman type for title, headings and headlines. Text with commentary surround, shoulder notes in the prefatory matter, initial spaces with printed guide-letter. 87 woodcut illustrations, including 3 full-page blocks opening Hell, Purgatory and Heaven, and 2 repeats; 3 marginal diagrams. (Small pale intermittent marginal dampstain in fore-margins.) 17th-century Italian vellum. Provenance : George John Warren (formerly Venables-Vernon), 5th Baron Vernon (1803-1866), (heraldic bookplate). Aided by Payne and Foss, Lord Vernon built up an important library, part of which later became the nucleus of the Holford library; acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1978. FIRST VELLUTELLO EDITION, with the extra text from canto ii of the "Purgatorio" stamped at the foot of V7r. THE FIRST USE OF THIS INFLUENTIAL SERIES OF WOODCUTS. Marcolini's artist makes a revolutionary departure from the influence of the March 1491 subjects, which had dominated subsequent editions of Dante to date: "While the fifteenth-century blocks could serve as a quick reference for figures in the text, these 1544 blocks are an extension of the commentary, a more instructive form of illustration" (Mortimer). In turn Marcolini's artist(s)'s woodcuts reappeared in the Sessa brothers's editions of 1564, 1578 and 1596, and 79 of the original 85 blocks were further used in 1696 in Palazzi's Compendio della Comedia di Dante Alighieri , Venice by Albrizzi. They were also widely copied, for instance at Lyons by Rouillé, 1551, and at Venice by Morando in 1554. Adams D-94; Casali and Servolini, Marcolini, 72; Essling I:2,i, 545; Foot, Henry Davis Gift , I, 308-322; Hobson Renaissance Book Collecting pages 120-121, "Appendix 8"; Mortimer Italian , 146; Sander 2328.
DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). La Comedia . Edited and with commentary by Alessandro Vellutello. Venice: Francesco Marcolini for A. Vellutello, June 1544.
DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). La Comedia . Edited and with commentary by Alessandro Vellutello. Venice: Francesco Marcolini for A. Vellutello, June 1544. 4 o (234 x 158 mm). Italic type, roman type for title, headings and headlines. Text with commentary surround, shoulder notes in the prefatory matter, initial spaces with printed guide-letter. 87 woodcut illustrations, including 3 full-page blocks opening Hell, Purgatory and Heaven, and 2 repeats; 3 marginal diagrams. (Small pale intermittent marginal dampstain in fore-margins.) 17th-century Italian vellum. Provenance : George John Warren (formerly Venables-Vernon), 5th Baron Vernon (1803-1866), (heraldic bookplate). Aided by Payne and Foss, Lord Vernon built up an important library, part of which later became the nucleus of the Holford library; acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1978. FIRST VELLUTELLO EDITION, with the extra text from canto ii of the "Purgatorio" stamped at the foot of V7r. THE FIRST USE OF THIS INFLUENTIAL SERIES OF WOODCUTS. Marcolini's artist makes a revolutionary departure from the influence of the March 1491 subjects, which had dominated subsequent editions of Dante to date: "While the fifteenth-century blocks could serve as a quick reference for figures in the text, these 1544 blocks are an extension of the commentary, a more instructive form of illustration" (Mortimer). In turn Marcolini's artist(s)'s woodcuts reappeared in the Sessa brothers's editions of 1564, 1578 and 1596, and 79 of the original 85 blocks were further used in 1696 in Palazzi's Compendio della Comedia di Dante Alighieri , Venice by Albrizzi. They were also widely copied, for instance at Lyons by Rouillé, 1551, and at Venice by Morando in 1554. Adams D-94; Casali and Servolini, Marcolini, 72; Essling I:2,i, 545; Foot, Henry Davis Gift , I, 308-322; Hobson Renaissance Book Collecting pages 120-121, "Appendix 8"; Mortimer Italian , 146; Sander 2328.
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