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Dante Alighieri - Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - The Comedy [Edited by C. Lucius Laelius]., 1478. Venice, Filippo di Pietro, [before May 6, due to the reference to the colophon of Doge Andrea Vendramin] 1478. In 2°. 294 x 195 mm. Text in Roman character in two columns of 36 lines for each page, without preface and arguments, edited by C. Lucio Lelio of whom an epigram can be read on the final page before the colophon, SPLENDID BINDING IN LONG-GRAIN RED MOROCCAN WITH GOLD FRAMES ON THE PLATES, PERFORATIONS, GOLD TITLE ON THE SMOOTH SPINE , the white paper of the first fascicle replaced, abrasions on the upper margin of the first leaf with a restoration patch that does not affect the text, marginal damp stains on the first and last leaves, notes by a contemporary hand. Provenance: Count Boutoulin; Seymour Kirkup; Baron Landau. This is the copy cited by de Batines and Mambelli himself, n.9 pg.17. Pencil annotations on the first flyleaf, with a brief account of the history of the specimen.