{"id":509,"date":"2015-07-21T21:43:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T21:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/?p=509"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:09:54","slug":"dante-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2015\/07\/21\/dante-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Dante again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special Collections seems to be making a <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2011\/09\/15\/a-1536-dante-to-go-with-our-1491-dante\/\">habit<\/a> of acquiring editions of Dante&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Commedia<\/em>. Maybe this is because it was a hugely popular book in the early years of printing history, and it helps that Re Evitt teaches a <a href=\"http:\/\/coloradocollege.libguides.com\/dante\">whole course<\/a> at CC on the text.<\/p>\n<p>Our newest Dante is a five volume edition published in Padua in 1822 with the commentary of Baldassare Lombardi. The frontispiece illustrations in volumes 1, 2, and 3 will knock your socks off. Just look at &#8217;em!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/07\/dante-1822-vol-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-510\" alt=\"dante 1822 vol 1\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/07\/dante-1822-vol-1-300x241.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/07\/dante-1822-vol-1-300x241.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/07\/dante-1822-vol-1-1024x824.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/07\/dante-1822-vol-1-624x502.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/07\/dante-1822-vol-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-511\" alt=\"dante 1822 vol 2\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/07\/dante-1822-vol-2-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/07\/dante-1822-vol-2-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/07\/dante-1822-vol-2-1024x765.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/07\/dante-1822-vol-2-624x466.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/07\/dante-1822-vol-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-512\" alt=\"dante 1822 vol 3\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/07\/dante-1822-vol-3-300x193.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/07\/dante-1822-vol-3-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/07\/dante-1822-vol-3-1024x661.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/07\/dante-1822-vol-3-624x403.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Collections seems to be making a habit of acquiring editions of Dante&#8217;s\u00a0Commedia. Maybe this is because it was a hugely popular book in the early years of printing history, and it helps that Re Evitt teaches a whole course at CC on the text. Our newest Dante is a five volume edition published in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cc-special-collections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-8d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}