NONESUCH PRESS: DANTE ALIGHIERI.

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La Divina Commedia. First Nonesuch edition, number 1,345 of 1,475 copies only. This finely bound and designed edition prints Dante's Italian parallel to Cary's English translation. It is illustrated after the Sandro Botticelli drawings that were used in the first Florentine edition of 1481.Rev. Henry Francis Cary's translation first appeared in 1814 and was praised by many, including by Coleridge during a lecture at the Royal Institution. The Italian text is from the philologist Mario Casella's authoritative edition of 1925, which contained numerous printer's errors that Casella corrected specially for this Nonesuch publication.

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