![]() The other illustrations generally depict the cantos as in the fifteenth-century Venetian edition that dictated later representations of the poem: Comento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino (Venice: Bernardino Benali & Matthio da Parma, 1491). The first ten blocks illustrate Alessandro Vellutello's introduction, which mostly deals with the structure of Dante's Hell. ![]() Three of the woodcuts are full-page illustrations, establishing the beginning of the Inferno,the Purgatorio and the Paradiso. This volume is profusely illustrated with 87 woodcuts, including two repetitions. La Comedia di Dante Aligieri con la nova espositione di Alessandro Vellvtello. Venice: Francesco Marcolini, 1544. ![]() More features from our Rare Book Collection ![]()
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