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 bindingText 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’ literatu