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1588 DEL PARTO DELLA VERGINE DEL SANAZARO ANTIQUE 16TH CENT. POETRY ILLUSTRATED - [Sannazaro, Jacopo] Del parto della Vergine del Sanazaro libri tre, Tradotto in versi Toscani da Giovanni Giolito de Ferrare... In Venetia: Gioliti, 1588 Elaborate woodcut architectural border on title-page, each leaf within woodcut border. Three full-page woodcut illustrations, woodcut floral device on final leaf. Later half leather binding size 6 1/2 by 8 3/4” Very good interior condition , some wear of the binding Text in Italian Sannazaro (1458-1530) was born in Naples of a family of noble Spanish birth. As a poet, he was patronized by Frederick, King of Naples, and he accompanied that monarch in his exile to France. His best known work is the pastoral poem, Arcadia, which is esteemed as a model of elegance and purity of verse. While traveling in Venice, Sir Philip Sidney is said to have purchased the 1571 Sansovino edition of Sannazaro, and, as Katherine Duncan-Jones reports in her 1991 Sidney biography: “This purchase was momentous for Elizabethan ‘Golden’ literature, for it determined the title and genre of Sidney’s own Arcadia and also, if the theory [first put forth in a 1988 article by S.K. Heninger] is correct, the format, at least, of Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender (1579), designed to recall to its dedicatee, Sidney, the Sannazaro volume” (Sir Philip Sidney, Courtier Poet, p. 77). Adams S332. Bongi, Giolito, II, pp. 488-489. Please make all inquiries before bidding. All lots are sold ”as-is”, refer to our T&C. Helios Auctions will ship all lots domestically for $25.00 per lot. Combined and international shipping are available. The rates will be provided upon request.