Salvador Dali, Dante Alighieri: La Divina Commedia. Verona. 1964. In an edition of 3044 copies. With 100 illustrations by Salvador Dali. 6 vols. Loose sheets in double cardboard, in individual slipcases. Slipcases and cardboard bindings with some sustaining, very fine inside. These evocative images by Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí were first commissioned in watercolour for the anniversary of Dante's birth (1964). Amid controversy around having a Spanish painter illustration an Italian epic, they were first exhibitioned in Rome in 1954. They were subsequently exhibited in Paris and published to accompany a French translation of Dante in 1963. This Italian edition follows the design of the French edition, though it additionally includes a list of the plates at the end of each volume together with an experimental capture.