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Dante Alighieri - Dante Alighieri - Dante with the exposition of Christoforo Landino, 1564. Venice, by Giovambattista, Marchiò Sessa, & brothers, 1564. In 8°. Full parchment binding. Spine with 3 raised bands and with a block. Blue colored edges. Portrait of Dante on the title page. Woodcut initials and decorations. The volume is accompanied by numerous woodcuts. Printer's device at the end. Handwritten annotations and brown ink marks. Scattered stains, light browning and reddening. The pp. 29, 257, 272, 288, 299, 376 erroneously numbered 37, 256, 270, 286, 209, 375. Important edition, one of the most significant among the Dante editions of the XVI century; it was called ”Dante del nasone” in reference to the portrait of the poet. For the first time, the comments of Landino and Vellutello are brought together and the comparison of the opinions of the fifteenth-century scholar with those of the sixteenth-century scholar is very interesting for the scholar.