Dante; Alessandro Vellutello. DANTE CON NUOVE, ET UTILI ISPOSITIONI. Lyon: Apresso Guglielmo Rouillio, 1575. Fourth edition. Gilt paneled parchment, gilt and ink manuscript writing and designs on spine, all edges gilt. 16mo; A-Z8 Aa-Rr8; 627 [13]pp. Roman and italic type; text in Italian. With information about the poet, Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso, table, and annotations; woodcut portrait of Dante, full-page illustrations, woodcut initials and head-pieces, and woodcut printer's device on title page. Adams D107; USTC 808798; Edit16 CNCE 1175.

4 1/2 x 2 7/8 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

This is the fourth edition of Dante with new and useful annotations, first published by Rouillio in the 1550s. This pocket-size edition contains full-page illustrations.

Parchment with typical discoloration, with light stains, corners heavily rubbed, with small losses especially at head and one corner; slight separation from textblock at tail and cracking at front hinge; title page with small losses and tears at outer margin, manuscript, and repairs; head closely trimmed; occasional writing, foxing, small stains, and small losses and tears, with larger loss and 3/4-in. tear to N3; pages toned; bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.