1491, Latin, Unpublished edition: Divine Comedy Alighieri, Dante, 1265-1321

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  • image/​tiff, 20.4 x 29.6 cm
  • Text
  • manuscript leaf
Published
  • Case Western Reserve University, digital content
  • 1491
Language
  • Latin

Edition details

Title
  • Divine Comedy
Creator
  • Alighieri, Dante, 1265-1321
Other Creators
  • Ege, Otto F.
Published
  • Case Western Reserve University, digital content
  • 1491
Physical Description
  • image/​tiff, 20.4 x 29.6 cm
  • Text
  • manuscript leaf
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Notes
  • Caption: "Dante Alighieri, the supreme exponent of the Middle Ages, is, according to Ruskin, "the central of all the world as representing in perfect balance the imaginative, moral and intellectual faculties, all at their highest." Dante's great work, the Divine Comedy , is an original creation. It is explained in his own words: "The subject of the whole work, taken literally, is the state of souls after death, regarded as fact. Taken allegorically, its subject is man, insofar as by merit or demerit, in the exercise of free will, he is exposed to the reward or punishment of justice." In the narrative of his journey, which was inspired by a vision in 1300, Dante is accompanied by two guides, "Virgil, who stands for human reasons,... And Beatrice, who symbolizes divine grace." Virgil cannot lead the poet beyond Purgatory, while Beatrice lifts him through the spheres of Paradise by contemplation. The last line symbolizes the new "love which moves the sun and other stars." The magnitude of Dante's conception is no more wonderful than the composition and form in which he expressed it with metrical virtuosity through the hundred cantos. The lasting popularity of the work is evident from the vast critical literature that has been written concerning this work.
  • This edition of Commedia , printed in Venice, 1491, by Petrus de Piasio of Cremona, is one of the best known of all the numerous fifteenth century editions. For several years, (1480-4183), de Piasio was in partnership with A. Torresanus, into whose hand the equipment of Jenson had fallen after the latter's death." (Ege, Otto F.)
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  • Otto F. Ege Collection
Source
  • Incunabulum, Printed by Petrus de Piasio, Venice, 1491
Language
  • Latin
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