SANNAZARO, JACOPO

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SANNAZARO, JACOPO
De Partu Virginis libri tres. Lamentatio de mortu Christi. Piscatoria. Paris, Robert Estienne, 5 May 1527. In-8 (160 x 103 mm) of 48 ff.n.ch. Red morocco, boards decorated in the Du Seuil style, corner fleurons in small irons, spine with ornate nerves, gilt edges (17th century binding). Renouard, Estienne, 26:12; Schreiber, 35. Beautiful Estienne edition which served as the basis for the Aldine edition published in the same year. "The Aldine edition of August 1527 is probably based on this one, except for a few augmentations" (Renouard). "Very rare edition of Sannazaro's Neo-Latin poems, including his masterpiece, De parti Virginis, the most splendid example of humanistic religious poetry, recounting in beautiful Virgilian hexameters the story of the miraculous birth of Christ. It is from this rare Estienne edition that the Aldine, printed three months later, was copies" (Schreiber). Jacopo Sannazaro (1458-1530) was one of the most important Italian neo-Latin poets of the Renaissance and exerted great influence on other humanists of his time during his exile in France between 1501 and 1504. [Bound with:] CATO. Disticha moralia. Paris, Robert Estienne, 1566. 12 ff.n.ch. (the last one blank). Very rare edition of Cato's distiches. It is not listed by Renouard nor Schreiber. Copy entirely ruled in red. Provenance: George Heber (wet stamp).
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