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DANTE.
103
JEsii; 1472.]
813. Dante. La Commedia. Printed hy Federicus
Feronensis (JEsii or Jesi). 14/2. Quarto.
The learned Audiffredi is, I believe, the first who has given a correct
nccount of this extremely rare impression. He tells us that * it is much
scarcer than the Foligno and Mantua editions, and that neither Haym
nor De Bure had been able to discover a copy of it. The Catalogues of
the Duke de la Valliere, Boze, Smith, Lord Oxford, Capponi, Jackson,
Floncel, and Rossi, are said not to contain it. The first who noticed it,
says he, w ras Volpi, in his catalogue of the editions of this poet; edit.
Patav. 17^7, vol. i. p. xxxiii et secp; but in calling it * a small f'olio ’ *
he has erred; as the volume is a quarto.’ Audiffredi speaks from a
personal examination of a copy. Edit. Ital. p. 3, 4. The first leaf of
the copy before us is supplied by a most skilfully executed ms. fac-
simile, and presents us with the following commencement:
el mezo del camin di nostra uita
mi ritrouai per una selua oscura
chela diricta uia era smarrita
Et quato adir qlera cosa dura
esta selua seluagia aspra e forte
che nel pensier renoua la paura
Tante amara che poco piu morte
The second canto has neither separation nor prefix; but the third, on
the recto of the 5th leaf, commences thus—without any space from the
second:
CA . iii. NEL. QYAL. TRATA. DE
LA. PORTA. DE. LINFERNO
Er me si ua nela citta dolente
p me si ua nel aeterno dolore
p me si ua tra la preduta gente
8cc. 8cc. 8cc.
* Audiffredi remarks, that the Milan edition of Haym, 4to, 1771, tom. 1. p. 183, had
repeated the error of Volpi, in calling it a smal). folio. It may be observed that the same
error is continued in tlie octavo edition of Haym, 1803, vol. ii. p. 5: * in f. non molto
grande.’ 1 he water-marks, being horizontal, denote it to be a quarto; but in point of
longitudinal appearance the volume is clearly a folio. Quadrio relies upon Volpi. DelL
Storia, &c. vol, vi, p. 249.
VOL. IV.
o
103
JEsii; 1472.]
813. Dante. La Commedia. Printed hy Federicus
Feronensis (JEsii or Jesi). 14/2. Quarto.
The learned Audiffredi is, I believe, the first who has given a correct
nccount of this extremely rare impression. He tells us that * it is much
scarcer than the Foligno and Mantua editions, and that neither Haym
nor De Bure had been able to discover a copy of it. The Catalogues of
the Duke de la Valliere, Boze, Smith, Lord Oxford, Capponi, Jackson,
Floncel, and Rossi, are said not to contain it. The first who noticed it,
says he, w ras Volpi, in his catalogue of the editions of this poet; edit.
Patav. 17^7, vol. i. p. xxxiii et secp; but in calling it * a small f'olio ’ *
he has erred; as the volume is a quarto.’ Audiffredi speaks from a
personal examination of a copy. Edit. Ital. p. 3, 4. The first leaf of
the copy before us is supplied by a most skilfully executed ms. fac-
simile, and presents us with the following commencement:
el mezo del camin di nostra uita
mi ritrouai per una selua oscura
chela diricta uia era smarrita
Et quato adir qlera cosa dura
esta selua seluagia aspra e forte
che nel pensier renoua la paura
Tante amara che poco piu morte
The second canto has neither separation nor prefix; but the third, on
the recto of the 5th leaf, commences thus—without any space from the
second:
CA . iii. NEL. QYAL. TRATA. DE
LA. PORTA. DE. LINFERNO
Er me si ua nela citta dolente
p me si ua nel aeterno dolore
p me si ua tra la preduta gente
8cc. 8cc. 8cc.
* Audiffredi remarks, that the Milan edition of Haym, 4to, 1771, tom. 1. p. 183, had
repeated the error of Volpi, in calling it a smal). folio. It may be observed that the same
error is continued in tlie octavo edition of Haym, 1803, vol. ii. p. 5: * in f. non molto
grande.’ 1 he water-marks, being horizontal, denote it to be a quarto; but in point of
longitudinal appearance the volume is clearly a folio. Quadrio relies upon Volpi. DelL
Storia, &c. vol, vi, p. 249.
VOL. IV.
o