La ‘Divina Commedia’ col Comento del P. Baldassarre Lombardi, M. C. ora nuovamente arricchita di molte illustrazioni edite e inedite...

Five volumes, 8° (255 x 167 mm). xxxiv, [2], 747, [1]; [4], 799, [1]; [4], 845, [1]; [8], 430; xii, 574, [2] pages. Illustrated with four engraved plates, including the portrait of Dante and the maps of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.Twentieth-century uniform bindings in red morocco. On the spines title and volume numbering in gilt lettering. Edges gilt. A very fine copy, printed on strong paper.

Provenance: Livio Ambrogio collection.

A fine copy of the Padua Commedia, an edition limited to 1,500 copies, here presented in one of the 100 copies printed on strong paper ("in carta gr. sotto imperiale fioretta", Batines, I, p. 153). From the textual point of view the ‘Dante Padovano' is one of the best editions of the Commedia published during the nineteenth century. The text of Dante's poem was edited by Giuseppe Campi (1788-1873), mainly on the basis of the Milanese Commedia appeared in 1478. The volume opens with a dedicatory epistle to Vincenzo Monti (1754-1828), and a preface signed by the Editori della Minerva. The last volume contains the bibliographical survey Serie delle edizioni della Divina Commedia, from 1472 to 1821.