Sanazarro, M. Jacopo

Arcadia Di M. Jacobo Sanazzaro Con La Di Lui Vita Scritta Dal Consigliere Di Luigi Portirelli

      Milano. dalla Societa Tipografica de Classici Italiani. 1806. Bound in full leather, 231 pages. Marbled endpapers. Small personal library number on base of spine on paper paste-down. Engraved frontispiece. Text in Italian. Jacopo Sannazaro (1457/8-1530) was a poet whose work both in Latin and Italian was extremely fashionable in its own time. The court poet of King Ferdinand I of Naples, Sannazaro was a member and then leader of Pontano's humanist academy from the 1480s on. Arcadia, the best-known of Sannazaro's Italian works, tells the story, in prose and verse, of the frustrated love of one Sincero for a certain Phyllis. The first nondramatic Renaissance pastoral, its descendants include Jorge de Montemayor's Diana and Sir Philip Sidney's two versions of Arcadia. Though alien to modern tastes, it appeared in a new edition virtually every other year throughout the sixteenth century. Very slight foxing here and there, overall quite good condition. Please feel free to e-mail with questions or to request a photo. This title comes from a large collection of similar 18th & 19th century Italian texts-more than 200 volumes in all-please drop me a note if you'd like to see the complete list.