The first printed edition of The Divine Comedy was published in 1472.
Known as the Foligno edition, or editio princeps, it was printed in Foligno, Italy, by Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi. The edition was completed on 11 April 1472, only a few decades after Johannes Gutenberg's innovations made large-scale European printing possible.
The book was not originally titled The Divine Comedy. Its early printed title was La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri, reflecting Dante's own title for the work. The adjective “Divine” became associated with the poem later: Giovanni Boccaccio used it in the fourteenth century, while Lodovico Dolce included Divina Comedia in a 1555 Venetian edition.
The Foligno printing was an incunable, a book produced in Europe's early movable-type period before 1501. About 300 copies were printed, and fourteen are reported to survive. Later editions helped standardize the text, add commentary, and spread Dante's poem across Europe.