Figure 105
Types in Dante: Sessa, Venice
From a copy in Harvard College Library (facsimile), Bilioteca Digitale Fondazione Marco Besso (scan, p. 91v)
1564
An edition of Dante with notes by Landino and Vellutello, edited by Sansovino, issued in Venice by the Sessas in 1564, is an example of what next came to pass in Italian printing. The text is set in italic surrounded by masses of notes in roman type.