First U.S. edition. The first printing in color of this cycle of illustrations by the fifteentlh century Sienese artist Giovanni di Paolo, representing the third and last book of The Divine Comedy. Each miniature is reproduced in facsimile-often with enlarged details-with a substantial introduction and commentary by Sir John Pope-Hennessy, and a full translation of the Paradiso by Charles Singleton. This is one of the finest of all Sienese illuminated manuscripts and here it receives a definitive presentation. With 132 illustrations, 93 in color. 223+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket. small 4to..

Paradiso : The Illuminations To Dante's Divine Comedy By Giovanni Di Paolo

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Di Paolo, Giovanni (illuminations) & Pope-Hennessy, John (text)

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