Editing Divine Comedy (section)

== History ==

=== Manuscripts ===
According to the Italian Dante Society, no [[holograph|original manuscript]] written by Dante has survived, although there are many manuscript copies from the 14th and 15th centuries&nbsp;– some 800 are listed on their site.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.danteonline.it/english/codici_frames/elencocodici.asp |title=Elenco Codici |website=Dante Online |access-date=5 August 2009 |archive-date=3 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603100920/http://www.danteonline.it/english/codici_frames/elencocodici.asp |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Early translations ===
[[Coluccio Salutati]] translated some quotations from the ''Comedy'' into [[Latin]] for his ''De fato et fortuna'' in 1396–1397. The first complete translation of the ''Comedy'' was made into Latin prose by [[Giovanni da Serravalle]] in 1416 for two English bishops, [[Robert Hallam]] and [[Nicholas Bubwith]], and an Italian cardinal, [[Amedeo di Saluzzo]]. It was made during the [[Council of Constance]]. The first verse translation, into Latin [[hexameter]]s, was made in 1427–1431 by {{ill|Matteo Ronto|fr}}.<ref>Michele Zanobini, [https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2/40398/ZANOBINI-DISSERTATION-2016.pdf ''"Per Un Dante Latino": The Latin Translations of the Divine Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Italy''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120011254/https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2/40398/ZANOBINI-DISSERTATION-2016.pdf|date=20 November 2022}}, PhD dissertation. (Johns Hopkins University, 2016), pp. 16–17, 21–22.</ref>

The first translation of the ''Comedy'' into another vernacular was the prose translation into [[Old Spanish|Castilian]] completed by [[Enrique de Villena]] in 1428. The first vernacular verse translation was that of [[Andreu Febrer]] into [[Old Catalan|Catalan]] in 1429.<ref name=commedia />

=== Early printed editions ===
[[File:Alighieri - Divina Commedia, Nel mille quatro cento septe et due nel quarto mese adi cinque et sei - 2384293 id00022000 Scan00006.jpg|thumb|right|[[Title page]] of the first printed edition ([[Foligno]], 11 April 1472)]]
[[File:Divina Commedia 1555 Edition.png|thumb|First edition to name the poem ''Divina Comedia'', 1555]]
[[File:Lucifer from Petrus de Plasiis Divine Comedy 1491.png|thumb|right|Illustration of [[Lucifer]] in the first fully illustrated print edition. Woodcut for ''Inferno'', canto 34. Pietro di Piasi, Venice, 1491.]]

The first printed edition was published in [[Foligno]], Italy, by Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da [[Trevi, Umbria|Trevi]] on {{nowrap|11 April}} 1472.<ref>Christopher Kleinhenz, ''Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia'', Volume 1, Routledge, 2004, {{ISBN|0-415-93930-5}}, p.&nbsp;360.</ref> Of the 300 copies printed, fourteen still survive. The original printing press is on display in the ''Oratorio della Nunziatella'' in Foligno.

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! Date !! Title !! Place !! Publisher !! Notes
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| 1472 || ''La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri'' || Foligno || Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi || First printed edition (or ''[[editio princeps]]'')
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| 1477 || ''La Commedia'' || Venice || [[Johann and Wendelin of Speyer|Wendelin of Speyer]] ||
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| 1481 || ''Comento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Dante Alighieri'' || Florence || [[Nicolaus Laurentii]] || With [[Cristoforo Landino]]'s commentary in Italian, and some engraved illustrations by [[Baccio Baldini]] after designs by [[Sandro Botticelli]]
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| 1491 || ''Comento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Dante Alighieri'' || Venice || Pietro di Piasi || First fully illustrated edition
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| 1502 || ''Le terze rime di Dante'' || Venice || [[Aldus Manutius]] ||
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| 1506 || ''Commedia di Dante insieme con uno diagolo circa el sito forma et misure dello inferno'' || Florence || Philippo di Giunta ||
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| 1555 || ''La Divina Comedia di Dante'' || Venice || Gabriel Giolito || First use of "Divine" in title<!--
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