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This edition of the collected works of the Italian humanist poet Jacopo Sannazaro (1458–1530) was stolen from the Library before 1767. It was found in the bookshop of ‘Byrne’ in Morgan Place in Dublin by Robert Travers on 15 September 1849, and returned to the Library.

The thief had scratched out the Marsh’s Library shelf mark on the front inner board of the book, but Travers was able to identify this copy because the personal motto in Greek of Archbishop Marsh remained on the title page.

Citation:
10. Jacopo Sannazaro, Opera Omnia (Lyon, 1605).,
Marsh's Library Exhibits,
accessed December 7, 2025,
https://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi/items/show/412