Dante Alighieri. [La divina commedia.] (Continued, 1.) **G.403.13 Vellutello’s dedication to Pope Paul III., an address to the reader, ‘Vita e costvmi del poeta,’ and ‘Descrittione de lo inferno,’ with ten cuts... Ir the printing of this edition, Purg. IT., 64-66 [the lines
Dianzi venimmo innanzi a voi un poco
Per altra via, che fu si aspra e forte,
Che’ 1 salir oramai ne parra giuoco,] were omitted through an oversight discovered shertly after the sale had begun. The publisher then caused the three lines to be added by means of hand-printing. . .
[This work is kept on the Special Libraries Floor.] (Continued on the next card.)
Oct. 3, 1900 *D6808