La Divina Commedia Di Dante; Dell' Inferno, Del Purgatorio, Del Paradiso in two small volumes, Italian language.

La Divina Commedia Di Dante; Dell' Inferno, Del Purgatorio, Del Paradiso in two small volumes, Italian language. Alighieri, Dante.

A near miniature two-volume Italian-language edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy, complete with all three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The poem follows Dante’s imagined journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, guided first by Virgil and later by Beatrice, combining theology, philosophy, politics, morality, and medieval cosmology.

1822-23. London: G. Pickering. 32mo.(1.75" x 3.25") Two volumes complete with all three books; Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise. 374 pp, continuous pagination. Full brown mottled leather with decorative blindstamp rule framing boards with gilt devices at each corner of frame. Spine with blindstamp decoration and gilt lettering. All edges marbled, dark green endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, some through to boards. Head and foot of spine chipped with loss to foot of spine, more so to Vol.II. Vol.II lacking first free endpaper, evidence of repair to upper joint and staining. Vol.I with engraved title page and engraved frontispiece of Dante, dated 1823, engraved title page dated 1822, Vol.II dated 1822. An adorable set of two small volumes with all three of the books of The Divine Comedy present. Italian text.