Dante Map.

850 x 543 mm. Woodcut folded map, with contemporary watercolouring, depicting Italy and a detail of Tuscany. Pasted in editorial cloth slipcase, with the Florentine lily stamped on the front cover. Preserved inside a booklet containing an introduction by the author and a placenames index.

Provenance: Livio Ambrogio collection.

Original edition of this map, drawned by Mary Hensman, on which are indicated all the places quoted in Dante works as well all the places visited by the Poet during his exile. As explained in the introductory booklet, the map was made on the Italian model of the Carta d'Italia illustrativa della Divina Commedia by Enrico Croce, published in 1875 and already unobtainable in 1892. The work reflects the nineteenth-century vogue for sightseeing ‘in the steps of Dante'.