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167
Sept. 1983
Dr. Eichenberger 50SF=$24.63
Bien wil am See
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
See #98 #261 La Commedia [Italian] CANTO XXIX 305-307
Venice: Petrus de Plasiis, Cremonensis, dictus Veronensis
18 Nov. 1491 folio. 302-304 CANTO XXVIII 304 p6
Comm: Christophorus Landinus. Ed. by Piero de Figino. [inserted] possibly a brother of Mersilia Ficino [end inserted]
Ref: Goff D33 HCR 5950 BMC V 270 GW 7970.
Cop: Harv CL, HEHL Starford (RBC) rubricated PARADISO
(4ff. n. ch., 316 ff. ch. et 3 ffn. ch.) -Dela Tertia Cantce DI Danthe 30 cm.
324 leaves 15-320 numbered 11-315 Canzoni in 3 col.
table in 2 col. 6 1/0 lines of commentary, and headline
24(248)x155mm Types 109 R text (Q widely
separated from w - in use 1490-92); 80R commentary.
The text is flanked by comm. on the right.
Capitals, also spaces with guide letters. Marginal
sections letters. The headlines give the name of
the cantica (Inferno - Paradiso) + the number
of the canto with wooducts (100) in outline + numerous fine
woodcut intials (white on black ground, with white ornamental background scrolls)
- Text 44 lines, 100 woodcuts about 3 1/4" square. The cuts are
very much of the same character + quality as in the ed of Benalius
and Capcasa (March 1491) 18 Canzoni of Dante appear
after verso 315.

Petrus de Piadio was in partnership with B. Blavius + A.
Torresanus from 1480 to 83. After that date he set up his
own press + was publishing books until the end of the 15th C.
into whose hand the equipment of Jenson had fallen
after the death of the latter.