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Dante...Comedia dell'Inferno, del Purgatorio, & del Paradiso
Illustrated by: Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
Author: Dante Alighieri (Italian, 1265–1321)
Publisher: Giovanni Battista Sessa (Italian, active 1546–1602)
Publisher: Melchiorre Sessa (Italian, active 1506–1549)
Printer: Heirs of Francesco Rampazetto (Italian, 16th century)
Author: Dante Alighieri (Italian, 1265–1321)
Publisher: Giovanni Battista Sessa (Italian, active 1546–1602)
Publisher: Melchiorre Sessa (Italian, active 1506–1549)
Printer: Heirs of Francesco Rampazetto (Italian, 16th century)
1578
Place of Publication: Venice, Italy
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 96 woodcuts
Dimensions
Overall: 30.5 x 22.5 x 4.8 cm (12 x 8 7/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of an Anonymous Donor
Accession NumberBR530
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Venice: Heirs of Francesco Rampazetto, for Giovanni Battista and Melchiorre Sessa and brothers, 1578
Catalogue Raisonné
Brunet II, 504; Mortimer, Italian, under 148
Description(Venice: Heirs of Francesco Rampazetto, for Giovanni Battista and Melchiorre Sessa and brothers, 1578) Folio; 424 leaves; nineteenth-century gilt-stamped red morocco (F. Ranvaud).
Illustrations: author portrait on title page; large woodcuts before "descriptions" of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso; smaller woodcuts illustrating each canto.
Illustrations: author portrait on title page; large woodcuts before "descriptions" of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso; smaller woodcuts illustrating each canto.
ProvenanceSala Library [note on preliminary leaf and in dept. register]; anonymous donor, by whom given to MFA, May, 1897.