Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Comincia La Comedia...
- Title:
- Comincia La Comedia...
- Collection:
- Images from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
- Date:
- 1472
- ID Number:
- REX007_0098
- Catalog Record:
- 3586142
- File Name:
- REX007_0098.tif
- Work Type:
- prints (visual works)
- Subject:
- Books
- Description:
- The Divine Comedy, Dante’s description of his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, was written during the last thirteen years of the poet’s life. The Foligno edition, shown here, was printed by Johann Neumeister (fl. 1470-1495), and is one of the two first editions of the Divine Comedy ever published. Thus the Foligno edition was printed only twenty years after the Gutenberg Bible (ca. 1454), which was the first printed European book. This place in the early history of printing is a mark of the great poem’s importance and influence during the Renaissance.
- Source:
- La divina commedia / di Dante.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Fiske Dante Collection
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- Presumed to be in the public domain because of creation date.
