Lettioni d’academici fiorentini sopra Dante, libro primo.

4° (206 x 135 mm). Collation: A², B-O⁴. [4], 9-110, [2] pages. Italic type. Two different woodcut printer's devices on the title-page and fol. O4v. Woodcut decorated and animated initials. Contemporary limp vellum, traces of straps. A very good copy. An early shelfmark inked on the spine.

Provenance: ‘Giovan Batista Ceridone' (sixteenth-century ownership inscription on the recto of the front flyleaf); Biblioteca Trivulziana, Milan (paper label on the spine, and stamps; sold as ‘duplicato'); Livio Ambrogio collection.

The collection, put together by Anton Francesco Doni, of ten Dantean lectures held by different member of the Accademia Fiorentina: Francesco Vieri, Giambattista Gelli, Giovanni Strozzi, Pier Francesco Giambullari, Cosimo Bartoli, Giambattista da Cerreto, and Mario Tanci.