La Divina Commedia di Dante con commenti secondo la Scolastica del padre Gioacchino Berthier dei Pred. Professore di Teologia nell’Università di Friburgo (Svizzera). Inferno.

4° (336 x 250 mm). lxx, [2], 659 pages. Four plates, showing two portraits of Dante (respectively after Raffaello and a codex of the Biblioteca Laurenziana in Florence), the map of Hell drawn by Sandro Botticelli, and a double-page diagram showing the categories of sins punished in Hell. Numerous illustrations in black and white. Editorial binding in blind- and gilt-tooled half-leather, boards covered with red cloth. Title in gilt lettering on the spine. A very good copy.

Provenance: Livio Ambrogio collection.

Fine edition, in its original editorial binding and richly ilustrated, of the Inferno, with the ‘thomistic' commentary by the Dominican theologian Joachim Joseph Berthier (1848-1924).