LA DIVINA COMEDIA; Vollständiger Tert, mit Erläuterungen, Grammatisch, Glossar und sieben Tafeln

Heidelberg: Julius Groos, 1918. First Edition-: text in German facing Italian. Leather with blind- & gilt-stamping. Near Fine/None. 7 Tables (1 being a map). Tall 8vo, red leather with gilt stamping, illustrated with 7 B&W engravings (e.g., 1 foldout printed both sides with diagrams [circles of the Inferno; stages of Purgatorio; orbits of Paradise]; 1 double-spread), 1 plate) & 1 map of N.. Central Italy ; xvii, [xviii-xx], 640 pages--German text & commentary with Dante's Italian facing German translations, finely printed on onionskin/India paper. Weight: 15.3 oz. An attractive leather-bound, lightly illustrated, scholarly edition of Dante's Divine Comedy in German with facing Italian poetry, plus learned commentaries. Slight wrinkling to the title page, else clean, bright, solid text throughout! Not Ex Library. No previous owner or remainder marks.<br /> <br /> Leonardo Olschki (1885-1961) was a literary scholar and expert in matters italian Romanist, Italianist, and Oriental. As a dedicated student of Italianate literature, Dr. Olschki had lived as a student in Venice, Florence, and Rome before departing for more studies in Germany at Munich, Strassburg, and Heidelberg. <br /> <br /> Dr. Olschki taught at Heidelberg University from the 1918 end-of-war date of this attractive edition until the Nazi persecution of Jews became widespread in 1933. At that time, he fled to Italy (refusing to write anything in German!); then, as war broke out, he emigrated to the United States in 1939. He soon became a lecturer at Johns Hopkins; private tutor at Harvard; trainer in German for the U.S. Army; and a lecturer at Berkeley.