Compendio della Comedia di Dante Alighieri, Diuisa in tre Parti. Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso per la filosofia morale, adornata con bellissime Figure, e Geroglifici. Consagrata Al Nobilissimo Praeclariss. Sig. Sig. Padrone Colendiss. Reuerendiss. Alberto Abbate di S. Paolo Monastero Frà Benedettini il Grande, Consigliero secreto degli Eccelsi Principi, Arciuescouo di Saltzburgh, e Vescouo di Bamberga, Arcidiacono di S. Lorenzo nell’Eremo, e Machling, deputato al Consiglio Supremo degli Ordini della Carinthia.

8° (196 x 126 mm). Collation: A-K8. 158, [4] pages. Illustrated with eighty-nine woodcuts. Numerous woodcut decorated and animated initials. Modern leather, blind tooled in antique style. A good copy, with strong impression of the woodcuts. As usual, leaves uniformly browned, stained and spotted in places, a few finger-marks. Old repair to the gutter of the title-page. Contemporary inked note on the title page ‘appresso ordine [?] della carinthia'.

Provenance: Livio Ambrogio collection.

The rare first and only edition of the Compendio by the Venetian Giovanni Palazzi (1640-1713), professor of canon law at the University of Padua, founder of the Accademia Theologica, and historiographer of Emperor Leopold I. The work presents a compendio or summary in prose of the Commedia, based on the commentaries by Cristoforo Landino and Alessandro Vellutello. The edition is illustrated with eighty-nine woodcut vignettes, a late re-use of the blocks executed for the Commedia printed by Francesco Marcolini in 1544.