This is a lovely write up of the exhibition of rare and important printed books of Dante’s works and about Dante, written by Paolo Gattavari, a PhD student at UCL.
The second seminar of the collaborative research project ‘Re-Reading Dante’s Vita nova’, held at University College of London on the 10th November, was accompanied by a book display showing a wide range of print editions of Dante’s works, from the editio princeps of the Vita nova, dating back to 1576, to translations of his texts into English and French.
UCL Library Special Collections hosted a display of books from their Dante Collection
The books on display were kindly made available by the UCL Dante Collection, an real treasure trove for anyone interested in Dante and the history of Dante Studies. With almost 3000 volumes, the Dante Collection took its origin from the bequest made in 1876 by the eminent Dante scholar Henry Clark Barlow and, from that moment onwards, it continued to blossom thanks to other donations or acquisitions.
The editio princeps of the Vita nova was…
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