La Vita Nuova - Dante Alighieri Facsimile Edition

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In 1921, year of the sixth centenary of Dante Alighieri’s death, three artists worked together to create this book, illustrated with forty original watercolour by Vittorio Grassi, entirely hand written by the calligrapher Enrico Brignoli and decorated in every page by Nestore Leoni. If The Comedy represents the most complicated, voluminous and famous of Dante’s works, La Vita Nuova is his more sublime poetic composition, where the poet tells the story of his love for Beatrice, following the “Stilnovo” writing style and offers a poetical autobiography. "La Vita Nuova" has significantly inspired a variety of writers and artists over the centuries. Notably, in the six hundred years since its creation, there has been only one edition published that features full-color illustrations.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "La Vita Nuova - Dante Alighieri": La Vita Nuova facsimile edition, published by Vallecchi, 2003

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La Vita Nuova

Florence: Vallecchi, 2003

  • Commentary (Italian) by De Robertis, Domenico
  • Limited Edition: 2999 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, La Vita Nuova - Dante Alighieri: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

Facsimile reproduction of the 1921 illustrated edition. Printed on special writing paper produced by Cartiere Miliani di Fabriano, Italy. 

Binding

Blue silk with silver impressions. Facsimile edition issued in a silk-bound case.

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