Dante.- Microscopic typography.- Cossovel (Francesco) Divina Commedia. Trascritto micro calligrafico a mano libera senza uso di lente, single folio broadside with Dante's full text for The Divine Comedy, presented in three cantica within architectural frame, lithograph, sheet approx. 615 x 430 mm (24 1/4 x 17 in), laid onto card support, old folds and handling creases, some splitting and damage, notably in lower left corner, some even toning and surface dirt, unframed, 1888.
⁂ After the pain for the death of his son, as written by Guido Manzini in 1963 on the magazine Studi Goriziani, Cossovel developed the ability to see very small objects: from this moment he made the decision to transcribe the work of Dante on a large vellum leaf - today lost - through a specially designed pen. The title specifies that the text is "composto di 14.233 versi, c.a. 96.000 parole., c.a 400.000 lettere.
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