La Commedia di Dante Alighieri col comento del p. Pompeo Venturi. Edizione Zonforme al Testo Comiano del 1727

Bassano: Dalla Tipografia Giuseppe Remondini e Figli, 1815. 3 volumes. 12mo, 138 x 90 mms., pp. [3] - 385 [386 blank]; [3] - 360; [3] - 382, attractively bound in contemporary seepskin, spines richly gilt, red and black morocco labels, blue Dutch end-papers. A very good to fine set. The Italian man of letters Pompeo Venturi (1693 - 1752) began publishing his critical edition of the Divine Comedy in 1732, in Lucca. The work first appeared anonymosly, with further editions in 1739 (Venice) and 1749 (Verona). "Venturi's edition, which is part of the criticism of the figure and work of Dante typical of the privileges the confessional side to the detriment of the philological- literary, since it aims at an explanatory exegesis 'in the service of God.'.In fact, Dante's work is criticized on a doctrinal and personal level more than on that of [textual] criticism, as the Jesuit father aims to defend the temporal power of the popes and their authority from the criticisms made by the Florentine poet. Furthermore, Venturi criticizes Dante's pluristylism: thus linking up with Bembi's doctrine: he disapproves of the use of words not admitted by the Accademia della Crusca. Venturi's edition, although critical of Dante, had great success until the beginning of the nineteenth century and was only supplanted by the edition edited by the minor friar Baldassarre Lombardi ( Lombardina, 1791), aimed at re-evaluating the Dantesque work and in open controversy with that of Venturi" (Wikipedia).