SANNAZARO, JACOPO (ACTII SINCERI SANNAZARII) — Opera, Latine scripta. Ex secundis curis. Jani Broukhusii. Accedunt. Gabrielis Altilii, Danielis Cereti, & Fratrum Amaltheorum carmina; Vitae Sannazarianae, & notae Petri Vlamingii.

Amsterdam, Gerard onder de Linden, 1728. Printer's vignet + engraved portrait of Sannazaro + engraved plate of tomb. Parchment. 8°. (XVI) 632 (20) pp. 2 old stickers on frontboard,some pages in the text a bit waterstained, good condition Jacopo Sannazaro, 28 July 1458- 6 August 1530 was an Italian poet, humanist, member and head of the Accademia Pontaniana from Naples.He wrote easily in Latin, in Italian and in Neapolitan, but 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 ...)In the Accademia Pontaniana that collected around Giovanni Pontano (Jovianus Pontanus), he took the classicizing nom de plume of Actius Syncerus.