DANTE ALIGHIERI, LA COMMEDIA. Foligno: Johann Neumeister & Evangelista, 15 April 1472

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Somewhat improbably, the Foligno press produced the first edition of a masterwork of world literature, the Divine Comedy, one of three editions of that year (the other two from Venice and Mantua), each set from a different manuscript. Neumeister refers in the colophon to his subordinate, “Evangelista meo,” who can be identified as a Foligno notary, Evangelista Angelini. Their printing enterprise ended with the Dante, and Neumeister departed in debt to his original patron Emiliano Orfini, who had him imprisoned in Rome. Neumeister then disappears from historical record until 1479, when he printed in Mainz, moving on to Albi in Languedoc in 1481, and to Lyons in 1488, where he died a pauper.

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WHS copy has provenance: Earl of Sunderland, W. H. Crawford, Fairfax Murray, Castlecraig Library.
WHS copy acquired 6/26/35 from Rosenbach.

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