The Comedy took over a decade for Dante to write, he worked on it in exile, having been sent out of his native Florence in 1302, when his political faction fell out of favor. One of the world’s great masterpieces and a foundational text of Italian literature. Three 8vo volumes (pages 211 x 132 mm), collating: vi,, 408, 56,, 57-62, 65-384 (complete), 420pp., engraved frontispiece portrait plate of Dante by Thomas Stothard in vol.1 complete. The odd spot or bit of foxing internally, heaviest in the third volume, but an excellent set overall. The first complete translation into English of Dante's "Divine Comedy." Bound in recent, full maroon straight-grained morocco, smooth spines ruled and titled in gilt, marbled end papers, all edges sprinkled red. The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri, Consisting of the Inferno - Purgatorio - and Paradiso.
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