Beschrijving
Amsterdam, Adriaen Wor en de Erv. van G. Onder de Linden, 1730, 8vo., full leather binding with goldtooling and ribbed spine, red sprinkled edges, [16]+297+[11] pp., the leather of the binding shows some wear and tear with worn spots along the hinge en the corners, but the constructions is intact and solid with the original headbands and reading ribbon in place. The pages are mostly clean with only some discoloured endpapers and some waterstains. On the front flyleaf an ownership signature has been removed damaging the paper slightly. The engraved titlepage has been repaired of reinforced with a strip of paper along the top edge, not interfering with the illustration. Besides the engraved titlepage (J. Houbrake sculp.), there is an engraved vignet on the titlepage (J. Goeree), an engraved head piece, two full page engravings and two fold out engravings (Carminus Perrellli Reg. Arch. del).
Jacopo Sannazaro (1458-1530) – also known as Actius Sincerus Sannazarius – was an Italian poet and humanist. He is best remembered for his humanist classic Arcadia, a masterwork that illustrated the possibilities of poetical prose in Italian, and instituted the theme of Arcadia, representing an idyllic land, in European literature. Sannazaro's elegant style was the inspiration for much courtly literature of the 16th century, including Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia. This edition from 1730 concerns a Dutch translation.
