La Divina Commedia di Dante Allighieri ricorretta sopra quattro dei più autorevoli testi a penna da Carlo Witte.

4° (258 x 190 mm). lxxxv, [3], 725, [3] pages. Frontispiece showing a marble bust of Dante, protected by tissue paper.Twentieth-century half-percaline, over pasteboards. Boards covered with decorative paper. Smooth spine, with title in gilt lettering. A good copy, as usual spotted and foxed throughout.

The Divina Commedia edited by the great German Dante scholar Karl Witte (1800-1883), providing the first modern critical edition of the poem. Witte used for his edition four authoritative fourteenth-century manuscripts: ms Vat. Lat. 3199 of the Biblioteca Vaticana, ms Ital. 136 of the Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlino, the so-called Caetani codex once belonged to the Caetani family, and the Santa Croce manuscript held in the Biblioteca Laurenziana. In 1865 Witte was among the founders of the Deutsche Dante-Gesellschaft.