Dante Alighieri

L’amoroso Convivio di Dante, con la additione et molti suoi notandi, accuratamente revisto et emendato.

Venice, Melchiorre Sessa, 1531.

8°(149×104 mm). ✠8, A-O8. [8], 112 leaves. Italic type. Title-page within elaborate woodcut border with Sessa's device at the bottom, repeated on fol. Q8v. Woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary vellum, inked title on spine and lower edge, renewned flyleaves, ties missing. A very fresh copy.

Provenance: Livio Ambrogio collection.



The last of the only three sixteenth-century editions of theConvivio and the last to be printed for the next two centuries; the work was reprinted again only in 1741 by Antonio Maria Biscioni as part of the collected works of the poet.This edition does not reproduce Dante's portrait, but follows for the text the previous editions, in particular that of 1529.