Le Rime Di Dante Alighieri Fiorentino Precedute Dalla Vita Di Lui.

ALIGHIERI, Dante; Giovanni Boccaccio.

$100.00

Item Number: 146434

Parma: Per Pietro Fiaccadori, 1842.

19th century printing of this collection of poems by Dante Alighieri, preceded by the first formal biography of his life written by Giovanni Boccaccio. Duodecimo, purple half cloth over green marbled boards. In very good condition with very light toning throughout, contemporary ownership signature to the title page.

The father of the Italian language, Dante Alighieri, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher who wrote what is widely considered the most important work of Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature, 'Divine Comedy.' His implementation of language and vernacular in literature was instrumental in establishing modern-day standardized Italian and in bringing Italian to the forefront of literary language in western Europe for several centuries.