[A book of notes on the works of Dante Alighieri].
A book of notes on the works of Dante Alighieri by an un-named student, manuscript in ink in a tiny and very neat hand. The notebook begins with a page on Dante's Vita Nuova, a work of courtly love poetry, followed by two pages on Il Convito (i,e. Il Convivio), followed by a four-page table of...
| Format: | Manuscript |
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | A book of notes on the works of Dante Alighieri by an un-named student, manuscript in ink in a tiny and very neat hand. The notebook begins with a page on Dante's Vita Nuova, a work of courtly love poetry, followed by two pages on Il Convito (i,e. Il Convivio), followed by a four-page table of "the cantos of the Inferno in their relation to sin, its punishment and its effect," followed by a similar one for the "Purgatorio." The text concludes with a five-page "Summary of Purgatorio and Paradise." The highlights, are four tipped-in illustrations at the back depicting the Inferno ("Section of the Hell"), Purgatory, Paradise ("The Rose of the Blessed"), and Dante's cosmogony ("The Universe") the latter three in ink and watercolor. All probably derivative of early work, sometimes much earlier: The "Section of the Hell," for example, closely resembles a drawing by Sandro Botticelli for an illustrated manuscript of The Divine Comedy. The overall format and level of sophistication suggest that these are the work of a college student attending a course on Dante. Indeed, a couple of pages bear dates in the upper-right corner (month and day only), supporting the hypothesis that these are lecture notes. Bound in hardcover with cloth spine, leaves and boards punched and tied with red ribbon. |
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| Item Description: | Title devised by bookseller. The notebook is unsigned and undated, but the inside of the front board bears a small label "Gaylord Bros. / Makers / Syracuse, N. Y. / Pat. Jan 21, 1908", suggesting it was used by an American? student in the first or second decade of the 20th century. The Cushing Library/Science Fiction copy is part of the Maps of Imaginary Places Collection. |
| Physical Description: | leaves 16-35, 4 unnumbered leaves : color illustrations ; 21 cm |