SANNAZARIUS. Actii Sinceri Sannazarii Neapolitani viri patricii, Opera latina omnia, & integra. Accedunt notae ad Eclogas, Elegias & Epigrammata. (Bound with:) Trium fratrum Amaltheorum, Hieronymi, Io. Baptistae, Cornelii Carmina. Editio secunda, plurimis in locis castigata. Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1689. 12mo. 2 volumes in 1: (XXIV),238,(2 blank); (XII),132 p. Vellum. 15 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 842282777; Brunet 5,127; Graesse 6/1,265; Ebert 20262) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. 2 titles, printed in red and black, each with the same woodcut printer's mark on it, depicting a celestial sphere. After the preliminary pages of the first volume come Sannazaro's Latin poems, p. 1/158, followed by explanatory notes, p. 159/238. The second volume contains the Latin poetry of the Amalthei brothers) (Condition: Vellum age-toned, back soiled. Bookplate pasted on the front pastedown. Old ink inscription in English, on the verso of the flyleaf at the end) (Note: We learn from the 'Praefatio' of the 'Opera omnia' edition of Sannazarius, Amsterdam 1728, that the editor and commentator of this edition of 1689 is the Dutch scholar Janus Broukhusius. Already on the first page of that 'Praefatio' of the Sannazarius of 1728, which was edited by the Dutch minor poet Pieter Vlaming, 1686-1733, the editor tells the reader that he used for his edition the previous edition of Broukhusius published by Wetstein. ('editionem Wetstenianam secutus ...' etc., Praefatio 1728, p. *6 recto) In addition we read on the title page of 1728: 'ex secundis curis J. Broukhusii'. This proves that the edition of 1689 was published by Janus Broukhusius, Joan van Broekhuizen in Dutch, 1649-1707. § This scholar/soldier pursued during an adventurous life his classical studies and poetry at leisure. As a neolatin poet he is known as the 'Propertius of Holland'. (Sandys 2,329) In 1684 he published his 'Carmina', a collection of his Neolatin poetry. His editions of Propertius (1702) and Tibullus (1707) laid the foundation for his reputation as a classical scholar. He was admired as a latinist, for his taste and for his erudition. (NNBW 4,309/12) § The Italian and Neo-latin poet Jacopo Sannazaro, 1458 -1530, in Latin Jacobus Sannazarius, also known as Actius Sincerus, was of noble birth, and a courtier at the court of the royal House of Aragon, kings of Naples. Here he found a humanist atmosphere favourable for the development of his talents. The humanist Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, 1426-1503, advisor and chancellor of the Aragonese dynasty, became his intellectual mentor. He took his young student in his Academy, the 'Accademia Pontaniana', under the name of 'Actius Sincerus'. There he deeply influenced his pupil's philological approach to antiquity and his knowledge of classical culture. After Pontanus' death Sannazarius became the head of this Academy. Sannazarius' masterwork 'Arcadia', written in Italian, exercised a great influence on European poetry, instituting the theme of the idyllic land Arcadia. He devoted the last decades of his literary activity exclusively to Neo-Latin poetry, modelled on Vergil. In the normative 'Tati Renaissance Library' Sannazarius is advertised as 'the finest Neo-Latin poet of the Italian Renaissance'. His 'corpus' of Latin poetry, written in an elegant style, was small but nevertheless very influential and widely read. We counted in KVK ca. 30 editions of his 'Opera Omnia' printed before 1689, the first of which was published by Aldus in 1535. His 'De partu Virginis', an epic of ca. 1450 verses, published in 1526, brought him the title of the 'Christian Vergil'. His style is said to be equal to Vergil, with whom he emulated. In his other works he also emulated with Ovid and Horace. § In the first volume of this edition of 1689 we find Sannazaro's poetry; the collection opens with: 'De partu Virginis libri tres', a poem which Erasmus is said to have liked, though he found this poem on the birth of Christ too secular. Follows a short 'Lamentatio de Christi morte', then 5 'Eclogae', which renewed the bucolic genre, the traditional shepherds of Virgil being replaced here by fishermen. Follow Sannazarius' 'Elegiarum libri tres', and 3 books of 'Epigrammata'. § The second volume contains the 'Carmina' of the brothers Hieronymus, Jo. Baptista and Cornelius Amaltheus (Jeronimo, born 1507, Giambatista, born 1525, and Cornelio Amaltheo), edited by the Dutch latinist Johannes Georgius Graevius, who was a friend of Broukhusius, the editor of the first volume. All 3 brothers were skilled and highly appreciated neo-latin poets. Hieronymus, whose style was of singular elegance and purity, so excelled in Latin poetry that he is placed by the French humanist Muretus, 1526-1585, among the most talented poets. Giambatista's Latin poems gave him a reputation equal to his brother. Cornelius left only a few Latin poems, he died young. They show that he shared the talents of his brothers. The poems of the brothers were first collected and published by Hieronymus Alexander at Venice in 1627. Graevius here offers a revised 'editio secunda') (Provenance: The armorial bookplate on the pastedown is of 'Henry A. Bright', its motto is 'Post tenebras lucem'. The family pedigree of the English merchant and author Henry Arthur Bright, 1830-1884, 'goes back to Nathaniel Bright of Worcester (1493-1564), whose grandson, Henry Bright, was canon of Worcester, and purchased the manor of Brockbury in the parish of Colwall, Herefordshire, which still remained in the family'. He was educated at Rugby School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. In Liverpool he was the centre of literary interests and literary friendships. He was a member of the Roxburghe Club and of the Philobiblon Society, as well as of the local historical and literary societies. (Source Wikipedia 'Henry Arthur Bright') The family had a substantial library put together over generations) (Collation: *12, A-K12,(leaf K12 blank); 2*6, 2A-E12, 2F6) (Photographs on request)
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