La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri già ridotta a miglior lezione dagli Accademici della Crusca ed ora accuratamente emendata, ed accresciuta di varie lezioni tratte da un antichissimo codice...

Four volumes, 8° (259 x 178 mm). xxiv, 359; 416; pp. [2], 454; v, [1], 474 pages. In the first volume frontispiece medallion portrait of Dante engraved by Raffaello Morghen after da Stefano Tofanelli, and engraved map of Hell, according Antonio Manetti's diagram. Twentieth-century uniform bindings in red cloth. On the spines title and volume numbering in gold on lettering-pieces. A very good copy

Provenance: ‘P.F. Willert Headington Hill Oxford' (ex-libris in each volume); Livio Anbrogio collection.

The Commedia issuedin Livorno was edited by the bibliophile Gaetano Poggiali (1753-1814). The text of the poem is included in the first two volumes, and is based – besides the Crusca edition of 1595 and the Cominiana printed in Padua between 1726 and 1727 – on an ‘antichissimo' manuscript belonging at the time to Poggiali himself, and containing the vernacular glosses known as Chiose Palatine. This fourteenth-century codex is nowadays held by the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence (ms Palatino 313). The third and fourth volumes of the Livorno edition include the Vita di Dante by Leonardo Bruni and extensive exegetical notes.