La Divina Commedia, e tutte le Rime di Dante Alighieri, per cura del Canonico G. J. Dionisi.

Two volumes, 24° (104 x 75 mm). [6], liii, [2], 243, 487, [1]; [2], 533, [1] pages. Contemporary quarter-leather, over pasteboards. Boards covered with paper (abrased in places), at the centre monogram combining the letters ‘I' and ‘R'.Smooth spine, title and volume numbering in gold on double lettering-piece; at the foot imprint in gilt lettering. Marbled pastedown, edges red. A very good copy, a few paper flaws, light foxing elsewhere.

Provenance: Leo Samuel Olschki (1861-1940; bookplate ‘Ex libris Leonis S. Olschki Biblipolae Veneti N° 15506 Scrin. 277'; on the recto of the front flyleaf the pencilled note ‘Catalogo 51 Letteratura Dantesca Olschki n° 89. nitida edizione non comune. Ristampa della Bodoniana del 1795').

Textually, the Commedia published by the Brescia printer Niccolò Bettoni is a reprint of the Bodoniana appeared in 1795, and prepared for Bodoni by the scholar and great Dante collector from Verona Giovanni Jacopo Dionisi (1734-1808). The second volume includes, at the end, the Rime, which from a textual point of view follow the Zatta edition of 1757-1758. “Graziosa edizioncina, fatta su buona carta» (Batines, i, p. 134).