DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). The Comedy. Venice: Gondoliere, 1838. First edition of the Divine Comedy accompanied by commentary by Niccolò Tommaseo (1802-1874), among the major Italian writers and philologists of the nineteenth century. The commentary, the result of the Dante studies of the famous Dalmatian writer, contributed to the renewed interest for Dante in the climate of the Risorgimento, proposing an interpretation attentive to the linguistic, historical and moral aspects of the poem. Three tomes in one volume, 4to (250 × 155 mm). typographical mark to the frontispieces. Coeva bonding with leather back, gold titles and decorations. (1)