La Divina Commedia.Illustrata Di Note Davarj Comentatori Scelte Ed Abbreviate Da Romualdo Zotti. Cet article n’est pas disponible.La Divina Commedia.Illustrata Di Note Davarj Comentatori Scelte Ed Abbreviate Da Romualdo Zotti

1808-9. 12mo. Half bound in contemporary calf on marbled boards. In 4 volumes. Vol. 1: xlii, 418, frontis of Dante Alighieri; Vol. 2: 419 p.p.; Vol. 3: 422 p.p.; Vol. 4: cck, 211-448 p.p., iv p.p. (table), 8 p.p. (names of associate lords). Vol. 1 lacks rear free endpaper. Vol. 4 dated 1809. Owner inscription Vol. 3, with small tear to bottom right corner of title page, but text unaffected. Rubbing to boards and spine. Foxed pages. Slightly bumped edges, o/w in very good condition. Romualdo Zotti was an expatriate printer and teacher of Italian at a girls school living in London. Zotti's La Divina Comedia was published in first three volumes of a four volume edition between1808-1809 with extensive commentary. The fourth volume contains a separate page, 'Canzoni e Sonetti di Dante Alighieri' and are a collection of his songs and sonnets, which includes a dissertation on Dante's Divine Comedy by Mr. Merian, a scholar and teacher at the Academy of Berlin. The three volumes of Zotti's Comedia are dedicated to an English lady [Havely, Nick. Dante's British Public: Readers and Texts from the Fourteenth Century to the Present, p.p. 138], La Contessa di Lonsdale (vol. 1), La Contessa di Dartmouth (vol. 2) and Signora Pilkington nata Gibbs (vol. 3). Zotti also published works by other important Italian writers, including Guarini, Tasso, and Alfieri.…