Clearly the press was “tweaking” its logo!

The text is from a manuscript that Pietro Bembo, the greatest Dante scholar of the Italian Renaissance, supplied to Aldus for this edition specifically. It is radically different from the Landino version that circulated in manuscript in the 15th century and was used for the incunable editions. This Bembo version held sway until the end of the 19th century.

•  Renouard, Alde, 34.5; Adams D83; Olschki, Le livre en Italien, 37; Index Aurel. 149.817; The Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection 59.5. Late 18th- or early 19th-century vellum over boards; round spine with two spine labels. Title-page wanting andsupplied in fine pen and ink facsimile. Minor repair to one inner margin, not touching text. Volume housed in a good cloth open-back case with inner corset; round spine with gilt-lettered leather label. A very nice, clean, unwashed copy.