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128 - DANTE ALIGHIERI. Dante Alighieri’s *Inferno*, with illustrat…
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DANTE ALIGHIERI. Dante Alighieri’s *Inferno*, with illustrations by Gustave Doré. French translation by Pier-Angelo Fiorentino, accompanied by the Italian text. Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1862. Large folio, bound in half-leather with corner pieces, IV-194 pp., illustrated with a portrait and 75 woodcuts (in separate plates) by Gustave Doré. A fine illustrated edition of the first part of the Divine Comedy, in Pier-Angelo Fiorentino’s famous translation, printed alongside the Italian text. This volume ranks among the great achievements of Gustave Doré as an illustrator, whose spectacular and visionary interpretation of Dante has left a lasting mark on the iconography of the poem. A sought-after volume for its large format, the power of its illustrations and the prominent place it occupies both in Doré’s engraved work and in the history of Romantic and post-Romantic books. * *Inferno* recounts Dante’s descent, guided by Virgil, through the circles of damnation. At once a theological poem, a moral vision and a political epic, this seminal text of European literature blends Christian meditation, medieval imagery and striking portraits of the damned. Good condition: spine rubbed, corners worn, foxing Expert: Mr Geoffroi PICARD DU CHAMBON
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