Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Origine, Vita Stvdii
- Title:
- Origine, Vita Stvdii
- Collection:
- Images from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
- Date:
- 1576
- ID Number:
- REX007_0114
- Catalog Record:
- 5916402
- File Name:
- REX007_0114.tif
- Work Type:
- bookleaf
prints (visual works)
- Subject:
- Books
- Description:
- This first Florentine edition of Boccaccio’s Life of Dante is bound together with the first printing of Dante’s own Vita nuova, also printed by the same press in 1576. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), best known as the author of the greatly influential (and often racy) Decameron, flourished a generation after the death of Dante and was a friend of Petrarch, whom he considered his mentor. The Vita di Dante is a somewhat apocryphal, although clearly reverential, biographical narrative.
- Source:
- Vita nuoua di Dante Alighieri. : Con xv. canzoni del medesimo. E la vita di esso Dante scritta da Giouanni Boccaccio ...
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Fiske Dante Collection
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- Presumed to be in the public domain because of creation date.
