La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri giusta la lezione del codice Bartoliniano.

Four volumes, 8° (221 x 139 mm). [42], lxxii, [2] 330; [4], 265, [7]; li, 790; vii, [3], 323, [3] pages. Two engravings in the first volume, protected by tissue paper and showing respectively some leaves from the manuscripts used for the edition, and Dante in the cave of Tolmino (Dante alla Grotta di Tolmino), engraved by Giacomo Aliprandi (1775-1855) after Giovanni Andrea Darif (1801-1870). Uniformly bound in modern green quarter-leather over pasteboards; boards covered with green cloth. Spines with five small raised bands underlined by blind fillets; title, volume numbering and imprint in gilt lettering. Pastedowns and flyleaves in pale brown card. A very fine copy, uncut. Insignificant foxing in places.

Provenance: Livio Ambrogio collection.

The Divina Commedia edited by Quirico Viviani (1784-1835), who based the text on the codex Bartoliniano of the Biblioteca Arcivescovile in Udine, so named after his earlier owner Giovanni Antonio Bartolini (1770-1824). The first two volumes of the edition contain the three cantiche, the third volume includes the essays Ragionamento sopra Dante by Francesco Torti (1763-1842) and Il secolo di Dante by Ferdinando Arrivabene (1770-1834), while the fourth and last volume presents an etymological dictionary by Viviani himself.