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Archives and Special Collections
Dante Catalog, pt. 2
Editions acquired after V. Giamatti's death
These editions of Dante's Divina commedia and other works have been acquired by the Special Collections Dept. following the death of the Dante Collection's founder, Valentine Giamatti, in 1972.
1520 (ca.)
Dante col sito, et forma dell' inferno.
Published in Venice by Alessandro Paganino.
[244] leaves., 4 leaves of plates (1 fold.) ; 11 cm.
This is Paganino's pirated reprint of the 2nd Aldine edition
of 1515. It was completed sometime between 1515 and 1525. Plates:
cut-away view of the levels of hell; schematic diagram of the
grouping of the sins, each represented as a circle; schematic
diagram of the loves from the Purgatorio, each represented as
a circle.
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1595
La divina commedia di Dante Alighieri nobile fiorentino.
Edited by the Accademico della Crusca.
Published in Firenze by Domenico Manzani; facsimile published in Firenze
by Accademia Della Crusca, 2000.
[14], 511, [57] p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Facsimile edition. Plan of hell; illustrated initials and
tailpieces--initials all contain a motto.
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1855
La divina commedia.
Edited by G. Bigioli.
Published in Napoli by G. Argenio.
3 v. (3 plates : 1 port.) ; 18 cm.
4th ed. Plates: port. after Raphael; Purg. XXVIII,82-83; Par.
XV,28.
Ex libris Clara Stillman Reed; gift of Fay Kaynor.
1901 (ca.)
Dante's Inferno.
Illustrated by Doré; translated by Henry Francis Cary.
Published in Chicago by Thompson & Thomas.
162 p. (74 plates : 1 port.) ; 30 cm.
New ed. This edition is essentially the same as those published
by Cassell in the late 1800's.
Gift of Louisa S. Morse.
1907
La preghiera di Dante.
Illustrated by A. Razzolini; pref. by Tommaso Nediani.
Published in Firenze by Passerini.
115 p. , [4] leaves (18 plates) ; 17 cm.
Plates counted in pagination; illuminated half titles. Includes
Credo, Ave Maria, I sette salmi and Le virtu cardinali (Paradiso
canti XXIV-XXVI).
Gift of Fay Kaynor.
1908
San Francesco d'Assisi.
Illustrated by Giotto; designed by F. Olivotto ; translated by Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow.
Published in Firenze by G. Giannini e fig.
[20] p. (10 col. illus. in text) ; 25 cm.
Bilingual Eng./Ital. ed. Secondo migliaio. c1905. "Riproduzione
della cromolitografia E. Berardi di Milano"; illustrated
and raised initials. The illustrations are chiefly from the frescos
by Giotto at San Francesco in Assisi. This is the life of Saint
Francis from Paradise Canto 11.
Gift of Fay Kaynor.
1914 (ca.)
The new life.
Illustrated by Evelyn Paul; translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti;
music by Alfred Mercer.
Published in New York by Brentano's (Camperfield Press).
[20] p. (10 col. plates; illus. in text) ; 25 cm.
Bilingual Eng./Ital. trans. Preraphaelite style.
Gift of Fay Kaynor.
1921
I disegni per la divina commedia.
Illustrated by Sandro Botticelli; preface by I. B. Supino.
Published in Bologna by Apollo.
6 leaves (90 plates) ; 41 x 57 cm.
Contains all of Botticelli's illus. (from the originals in
the Kupferstich-Kabinett zu Berlin and the Biblioteca Vaticano).
See also 1921 Grote'sche ed.
Gift of Helene B. Black.
1946
La divina commedia.
Illustrated by Sandro Botticelli; edited by Onorato Castellino.
Published in Torino by Edizioni palatine.
xvii, 861 p. (36 plates) ; 32 cm.
Gift of Ilario Menin.
1958
Comedy of Dante Alighieri.
Translated by Mary Prentice Lillie.
Published in San Francisco by Grabhorn Press.
3 v. ; 28 cm.
English unrhymed hendecasyllabic verse. Unillustrated.
Ex libris Clara Stillman Reed; gift of Fay Kaynor. Inscribed
by Lillie to Reed.
1962
The comedy of Dante Alighieri, the Florentine.
Illustrated by William Blake; translated by Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara
Reynolds.
Published in New York by Basic Books.
3 v. (45 plates : 1 port.; 10 illus in text) ; 22 cm.
The translation of Paradise was completed by Reynolds after
Sayers' death. The plates include genealogies and diagrams of
the levels of hell, purgatory and paradise.
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1964
The ante-purgatorio of Dante Alighieri.
Illustrated by Jack Zajac; translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Published in New York by Racolin Press.
71 p. (10 plates) ; 53 cm.
English translation. Full-page b&w etchings.
1968
Flaxman Designs for Dante-- Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso.
Illustrated by John Flaxman; notes by Bill Tate.
Published in Truchas, N.M. by Tate Gallery (Rio Grande Sun Press).
83 p. (34 illus. in text) ; 29 cm.
1st ed. Pages printed on 1 side only. Reduced illustrations
with captions in translation.
Gift of Fay Kaynor.
1976
The drawings by Sandro Botticelli for Dante's Divine comedy.
Illustrated by Sandro Botticelli; translation by John Ciardi; notes by
Kenneth Clark; commentary on allegories by George Robinson.
Published in New York by Harper & Row.
218 p. (96 plates : 20 illus. in text) ; 37 cm.
1st U.S. ed. Some illustrations in color. Plates counted in pagination.
English text captions from John Ciardi's translation c1954-57. Illustrations
at about 3/4 original size from the originals in the Biblioteca Apostolica
Vaticano, the Staatliche Museen Preussicher Kulturbesitz Kupferstichkabinett,
and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin DDR Kupferstichkabinett und Sammlung
der Zeichnungen.
1976
La divina commedia : XX stampe in legno-xilogravuri.
Illustrated by Gy. Szabó Béla; translated [into Romanian]
by Eta Boeriu, German translations by Franz Hodjak, Hungarian translations
by Vasile Igna; edited by Babits Mihály and Wilhelm G. Herz.
Published in Cluj-Napoca, Romania by Dacia.
[66] p. (20 plates) ; 43 cm.
Captions and short excerpts in German, Hungarian, Italian and Romanian.
Large-scale wood engravings slightly reduced from the original dimentions
of 50 x 40 cm. Font designed by Horák József.
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1980
The divine comedy.
Illustrated by Barry Moser; translated by Allen Mandelbaum.
Published in Berkeley, Calif. by Univ. of California Press.
3 v. (102 plates : 3 ports.) ; 29 cm. (The California Dante)
Bilingual Ital./Eng. ed. Plates counted in pagination; same
port. in ea. vol.
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1980
L'Inferno di Dante in napoletano.
Illustrated by John Flaxman; translated by Matilde Donnarumma.
Published in Napoli by Pierro Editore.
476 p. (35 plates) ; 25 cm.
Neapolitan dialect trans. Illustrations after the 1826 ed. by Flaxman, with modifications to the shading. Plates counted in pagination.
1985
Dante's Inferno.
Illustrated and translated by Tom Phillips.
Published in London & New York by Thames and Hudson.
311 p. (139 col. plates : 1 port.) ; 30 cm.
In blank verse. Originally published in 1983 as a livre d'artiste.
Includes iconographical notes; "[the] pictures ... attempt
to provide a visual commentary to Dante's text", and are
chiefly collages blending abstract images and words. The words
are "a poetic gloss deriving ... from W.H. Mallock's A Human
Document". Plates counted in pagination.
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1985
Dante's comedy-- Inferno.
Illustrated by Benjamin Martinez; translated by Nicholas Kilmer.
Published in Brookline Village, Mass. by Branden Pub. Co. with Dante Univ.
of America Press.
[4], 221, [10] p. (35 plates : 1 port.) ; 21 cm.
Originally planned for 3 vols., only Inferno was published.
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1986
The divine comedy.
Translated & edited by Thomas G. Bergin.
Published in Arlington Heights, Ill. by H. Davison.
xvi, 112, ii p. (4 plates : 3 plans) ; 19 cm. (Crofts classics)
c1955. Verse trans., except Canto XI of Inferno in prose.
Includes bibliography. Plates: plan of hell; plan of purgatory;
plan of heaven; table of celestial orders and correspondences.
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1986
Bozská komédia-- Raj.
Illustrated by Vincent Hloiznbik ; translation and commentary by Viliam
Turicány..
Published in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia by Tatran..
423 p. (34 plates ; 34 illus. in text) ; 25 cm.
Slovak trans. of Paradiso. The plates are counted in the pagination.
Based on the 1955 Italian ed. by Natalino Sapegno (Firenze :
Nuova Italia).
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1988
La divina commedia.
Illustrated by Achille Incerti ; edited and with preface by Georgio
Petrocchi.
Published in Milano by Mazzotta.
238 p. (103 col. plates) ; 30 cm.
Preface in Eng. and Ital. The plates are counted in the pagination.
The text follows Petrocchi's 1966-67 ed.
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1993
Paradiso : the illuminations to Dante's Divine comedy by Giovanni di Paolo.
Translated by Charles Singleton ; commentary by John Pope-Hennessy.
Published in New York by Random House.
[224] p. (illus.) ; 28 cm.
From British Library manuscript Yates-Thompson 36.
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1994
Boska komedia. Pieklo.
Illustrated by Stefana Mrozewskiego ; translated by Edwarda Porebowicza
; commentary by Jadwiga Galuszka.
Published in Krakow by Secesja.
145 p. (35 b&w plates) ; 35 cm.
Woodcuts.
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1994
The Inferno of Dante.
Translated by Robert Pinsky ; illustrated by Michael Mazur ;
with notes by Nicole Pinsky ; foreword by John Freccero.
Published in New York by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
xxiv, 427 p. (36 illus. in text) ; 24 cm.
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1996
The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri. Vol. 1, Inferno.
Edited and translated by Robert M. Durling ; introduction and
notes by Ronald L. Martinez and Robert M. Durling ; illustrations
by Robert Turner.
Published in New York by Oxford University Press.
xviii, 654 p. (4 plates ; 8 illus. in text) ; 24 cm.
English and Italian. The plates are counted in the pagination;
some of the illustrations are based on other art. Plates: map
of Italy ca. 1300, map of Romagna and Tuscany ca. 1300, the celestial
sphere and the zodiac, the structure of Dante's Hell. Illus.:
Canto 7, Fortune and her wheel (after a drawing from Liber
scivias); Canto 10, the Resurrection of the dead (after the
west front's central tympanum at Amiens Cathedral); Canto 19,
baptismal font from the Pisa Baptistery; Canto 21, a devil (based
on an illuminated manuscript of the Commedia); Canto 25,
a fist making "the fig"; Canto 30, a lute; Canto 31,
the city walls of Montereggione; Canto 34, relative positions
of Jerusalem, Florence, the mouth of the Ebro, Gibraltar, the
Ganges, and Purgatory.
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2000
The drawings for Dante's Divine comedy.
Illustrated by Sandro Botticelli ; with essays by Hein.-Th. Schulze
Altcappenberg, Horst Bredekamp, Damian Dombrowski, Andreas Kablitz,
Peter Keller, Giovanni Morello, Julia Schewski, Robert Fuchs,
Oliver Hahn and Doris Oltrogge.
Published in London by the Royal Academy of Arts.
357 p. (99 col. plates) ; 26 x 31 cm.
Issued on the occasion of an international exhibition of Botticelli's
drawings (done in the last quarter of the 15th century), the
reproductions are approximately half size. The illustrated essays
are titled: Introduction; The Medici, Sixtus IV and Savonarola;
Botticelli and the construction of the spirit; Illuminated manuscripts
of the Divine comedy; Sandro Botticelli's Chart of hell; The
engravings of the 1481 edition of the Divine comedy; and Finito
and Non finito: drawing and painting techniques in Botticelli's
Divine comedy.
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2001
Dante's gallery of rogues.
Illustrated by Vincenzo R. Latella ; introductory essay by Anne
Paolucci.
Published in Middle Village, N.Y. by the Council on National
Literatures.
119 p. (36 col. plates) ; 26 cm.
Essay in English; captions in Italian and English. The plates
are counted in the pagination. Issued in conjunction with an
exhibit of the original paintings held at the CNL/Anne and Henry
Paolucci International Conference Center in Middle Village, N.Y.
in March 2001.
Gift of publisher.
