Seven centuries of Divine Comedy

June 30th – Exclusive event for the DAS of Charleston in Foligno, the Italian city where, on April 11th 1472 was born the first ever printed edition of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. The printing was carried out by the master printer Johann Numeister, from Mainz, and Evangelista Angelini from Trevi, with the collaboration of the Foligno minter Emiliano Orfini. The members of DAS have the extraordinary opportunity of seeing the Anastatic Copy of the Edit Princeps and 14 rare and remarkable exemplars of Dante Alighieri’s masterpiece from the 1500’s to modernity. The event at Palazzo Trinci, an architectural masterpiece of the Middle Ages in the city of Foligno, is possible thanks to the cooperation with the City of Foligno and the Biblioteca Comunale “Dante Alighieri” di Foligno.

 

 

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