La Commedia di Dante Alighieri.

Three volumes, 450 x 315 mm. 187, [1]; 185, [1]; 45, [1] pages. In all, 142 lithographic plates by Annibale Belli. Uniformly bound in red morocco, covers framed within floral border in gilt. Spine with five raised bands, title in gilt lettering. Grey silk pastedowns and flyleaves. In its original slipcase. In the first volume insignificant loss to the upper portion of the spine, a light scratch to the spine of the third one. A very good copy.

Provenance: Livio Ambrogio collection.

Deluxe edition, limited to 500 copies, of this monumental Commedia, published on the occasion of the seventh centenary of Dante's birth. The text of the poem is accompanied by Niccolò Tommaseo's commentary, first appeared in 1837, and illustrated by fifty-two renowned Italian artists: Nino Aimone, Amerigo Bartoli, Mirko Basaldella, Renzo Biasion, Remo Brindisi, Luigi Broggini, Corrado Cagli, Ennio Calabria, Massimo Campigli, Domenico Cantatore, Carlo Carrà, Sandro Cherchi, Arnaldo Ciarrocchi, Fabrizio Clerici, Carlo Corsi, Leonardo Cremonini, Giorgio De Chirico, Agenore Fabbri, Pericle Fazzini, Ferruccio Ferrazzi, Franco Gentilini, Alberto Gerardi, Emilio Greco, Carlo Guarienti, Giuseppe Guerreschi, Renato Guttuso, Beppe Guzzi, Carlo Levi, Rodolfo Margheri, Marcello Mascherini, Carlo Mattioli, Giuseppe Mazzullo, Francesco Messina, Giuseppe Migneco, Luciano Minguzzi, Giovanni Omiccioli, Fausto Pirandello, Giacomo Porzano, Domenico Purificato, Bruno Saetti, Aligi Sassu, Lello Scorzelli, Gino Severini, Giovanni Stradone, Francesco Tabusso, Orfeo Tamburi, Gianfilippo Usellini, Renzo Vespignani, Tullio Vietri, Tono Zancanaro, Giuseppe Zigaina, Alberto Ziveri.