Jacopo Sannazaro

Jul 28, 1458 - Apr 27, 1530

Jacopo Sannazaro was an Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist 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.
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“Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.”

Jacopo Sannazaro
Jul 28, 1458 - Apr 27, 1530
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