Il saluto di Beatrice (Bound with:) GIOVANNI FRANCIOSI, L’animo e l’arte di Dante nel sonetto del saluto. Pensieri di Giovanni Franciosi.

366 x 253 mm. [8] leaves. In each page head-piece including the coat of arms of Dante Alighieri and Beatrice Portinari, with name's initials printed in red. On fol [2]r the text of the sonnet Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare printed in gothic type, opening red initial with blue pen-work. Red initials in text. On the recto on the penultimate leaf, printer's device. Original editorial wrappers, decorated with vegetable motifs, and red and blue initials in early style.

Provenance: Livio Ambrogio collection.

Original edition, limited to 300 copies – the present is the no. 25 – of this essay by the Dante scholar Giovanni Franciosi (1843—1898) on the famous sonnet Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare from the Vita Nuova.