Bellezze della Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Dialoghi d’Antonio Cesari...

Four volumes, 8° (227 x 145 mm). xiv, 666; viii, 604; [2], 648; 178 pages. Modern quarter-cloth over pasteboards, boards covered with marbled paper. Smooth spine gilt-tooled, title on double lettering-piece. Gilt titles on the spine; edges speckled brown. A very good copy, light foxing and spotting in places.

Provenance: Carlo Chiattone (stamp on the verso of the front flyleaf of the second volume); Paolo Cagna Ninchi (ex-libris on the front pastedown of each volume); Livio Ambrogio collection.

First edition, privately printed, of this work by the linguist from Verona Antonio Cesari (1760-1828), a sort of Dantean encyclopaedia based on the text of Paduan Commedia of 1822.