GELLI, GIOVANBATISTA: (DANTE ALIGHIERI) Lettura seconda sopra lo Inferno di Dante di -. Letta nella Accademia Fiorentina nel Consolato d'Agnolo Borghini. in Fiorenza (Florence) 1550. (appresso M. Lorenzo Torrentino). 8vo. s. (8), 218, (2), 2 blank) pp. Includes 1 almost full-page woodcut, woodcut initials and title-vignet. New halfleatherbinding with 4 raised bands and gilt decor. and lettering on spine. Marbled boards.(Magnus Myhra, Oslo) Closed tears in 2 leaves. Some staining near bottom edge from page 87 and the rest of the book. ¶ Giovanni Battista Gelli (1498-1563) was a florentine writer who, as the chairman of Accademia florentina, became commissioned by Cosimo I. Medici to hold lectures on Dante; Divina Commedia. The lectures came in 7 volumes in 1554-61. This is the second volume bound in a beatiful halfleather binding. Gelli also wrote poems, letters and two comedies (Brunet II, 1522) Rare!
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