Opera omnia latine scripta.
by SANNAZARO, Jacobus
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Zürich, Switzerland
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About This Item
Venice, ex Bibliotheca Aldina (Paulus Manutius), 1570. With large Aldus anchor device on title and last leaf verso. Printed in Italics. 104 leaves. Small 8vo. Contemp. limp vellum with spine label (somewhat stained, small piece lacking from lower edge). From the collection of Hendrik D. Vervliet. Venice, ex Bibliotheca Aldina (Paulus Manutius), 1570. Aldine edition of the collected Latin works of Jacopo Sannazaro (1456?-1530), printed in Italics. Born in Naples to a noble family, he was probably the most popular Italian poet of his day using the vernacular, who wrote both in elegant Italian and in Latin. The edition contains "De partu Virginis", the most splendid example of humanistic religious poetry, which describes the nativity of Christ in metaphors of non-Christian classics, in imitation of the Eneid of Vergil. In addition, there are ecolgues, elegies and epigrams. - Waterstain in outer margin throughout, some worming from leaf 80 onwards in upper gutter, sometimes just touching letters. - STC (Italian) 605; Adams S-314; Renouard 211.20; Ahmanson Murphy coll. (1995), p. 33; Ebert 20260. HUMANISM ;
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- Bookseller
- Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat (CH)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32814-227
- Title
- Opera omnia latine scripta.
- Author
- SANNAZARO, Jacobus
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Venice, ex Bibliotheca Aldina (Paulus Manutius)
- Date Published
- 1570
- Keywords
- HUMANISM ;
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Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat
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