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SANNAZARO, Giacomo (1458-1530). Arcadia...tutti fornita et trata emendatissiima dal suo originale. Edited by Petrus Summontius. Naples: Sigismund Mayr, March 1504.
Small 4o (193 x 123 mm). Roman type. Editor's dedication to Summonte to Cardinal d'Aragon. Initial spaces with printed guide letters. (Occasional minor soiling or staining, title-leaf torn along gutter.) 19th-century vellum gilt over pasteboard, sides with double fillet and ribbon and flower roll border, smooth spine in compartments, red morocco lettering-piece, gilt edges (small tear to lower cover, spine label slightly defective). Provenance: Agostino ?Caimo of Milan (late 17th-century inscription at end, stating that he is a subject of Ranuccio Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza [presumably Ranuccio II, 1630-1694]); Franklin H. Chase (bookplate).
RARE PIRATE EDITION of Sannazaro's pastoral romance in prose and verse, which enjoyed immediate popularity and became the model for a long line of pastoral romances throughout Europe. The work first circulated in manuscript; four pirated, incomplete and faulty editions appeared at Venice and Milan in 1502-1504 before the first authorized edition was printed at Naples by Sigismund Mayr in March 1504. The present finely printed edition, whose printer is not identified since it violated the 10-year privilege accorded Mayr, is a faithful reprint of Mayr's edition, whose layout it imitates without following it line-by-line. Gamba 889 ("bella edizione").
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RARE PIRATE EDITION of Sannazaro's pastoral romance in prose and verse, which enjoyed immediate popularity and became the model for a long line of pastoral romances throughout Europe. The work first circulated in manuscript; four pirated, incomplete and faulty editions appeared at Venice and Milan in 1502-1504 before the first authorized edition was printed at Naples by Sigismund Mayr in March 1504. The present finely printed edition, whose printer is not identified since it violated the 10-year privilege accorded Mayr, is a faithful reprint of Mayr's edition, whose layout it imitates without following it line-by-line. Gamba 889 ("bella edizione").