La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri col comento di Giovanni Maria Cornoldi D.C.D.G.

8° (205 x 129 mm). xx, 855, [1] pages. Illustrated with three plates (Spaccato dell'Inferno; Prospetto del Purgatorio; Paradiso o Figura universale della Divina Commedia ). Nineteenth-century white half-vellum over pasteboards, boards covered with marbled paper (abrased in places). Smooth spine, with inked title. At the head ‘viii' on a small paper label, at the foot ‘73', on a small paper slip (the same shelfmark pencilled on the front pastedown and title-page). A very good copy, some leaves uniformly browned, a few small spots and stains. Inked note in a contemporary hand on the front flyleaf, with a brief survey of the fortune of Dante's poem.

Provenance: Livio Ambrogio collection.

The Commedia dedicated to Leone xiii, edited by the Venetian Jesuit Giovanni Maria Cornoldi (1822-1892), a leading figure of the Italian Neo-Scholasticism, and founder in 1881 of the journal L'Accademia Romana di S. Tommaso d'Aquino. Dante's poem is re-interpreted from an scholastic point of view. In 1888 Cortoldi published the essay La filosofia scolastica di San Tommaso e di Dante.