’Tis not enough for Speier to print the songs
That Phoebus loves, the Muses’ tales and lays:
Each book is favored. Not for rest he longs,
But thus to print Justinian’s laws essays.
Speier, now Italy’s cities know thy glory,
And future ages shall repeat the story.
When Wendelin resumed business on his own account in 1476, he published very few books; but one of these, the “Divina Commedia” of Dante, printed in that year, has an Italian colophon in the ambitious form of a sonnet:
Dante. Divina Commedia. Venice: Wendelin of Speier, 1476.