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Dante Alighieri - Dante Alighieri (Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321) - Comedy by Dante Alighieri divine poet: with the exposition of Christophoro, 1529. Venice, Iacopo del Burgofranco from Pavese, at the request of the noble lord Lucantonio Giunta from Florence, 1529. On 2nd. Frontispiece printed in red and black within an architectural frame depicting the Muses at the base and five great Latin and five Italian poets on either side (the same frame, however, with only Latin poets in the side columns, frames the first large woodcut that inaugurates the Inferno). At the bottom, in the centre, a red Florentine lily. On the back of the frontispiece is the famous and beautiful portrait of Dante, two other large woodcuts are placed at the beginning of Purgatory and Paradise while each individual canto bears a smaller woodcut illustration at the beginning. Ink marks, burnishing and some pages are slightly trimmed. Modern red half-leather binding with wooden boards.