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Dante inferno book6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Foligno Dante edition helped Dante’s poem make the quantum leap from individual manuscript copies-treasured by scholars and collectors of means-to a much broader readership, and it spurred a steady flow of further editions in Italy over the next seventy-five years. This, the first printed edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy, was printed a scant two decades after moveable type was first employed in Europe in an out-of-the-way place by an itinerant German printer whose relationship to Foligno ended after this one publication. ![]() Dante Alighieri Divina commedia Foligno, Johann Neumeister, 1472 Cornell Library, Rare and Manuscript Collections (2 images) ![]()
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