The Trivulziano codex 1080, a parchment volume copied in 1337 in Florence by Francesco di ser Nardo da Barberino, hands down one of the oldest and most authoritative texts of Dante's Comedy, followed by the chapters in third rhyme by Iacopo Alighieri and Bosone Novello da Gubbio. The writing of the text is an elegant chancery, which is accompanied by the valuable miniatures attributed to the anonymous Master of the Dominican Effigies. From a graphic and decorative point of view, the codex can be inscribed in the group of the so-called 'Danti del Cento', while on the textual side it is confirmed as the primary witness of Dante's Comedy. Perhaps as early as the fifteenth century the important manuscript migrated to the Veneto area, where it was still at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when Gian Giacomo Trivulzio probably bought it on the occasion of the Napoleonic suppression of the convents in the region.

This work, belonging to the permanent collection, is exposed to the public for conservation reasons only on the occasion of temporary exhibitions