Jacopo Sannazaro Quotes

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. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. July 1458 – 24. April 1530
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Famous Jacopo Sannazaro Quotes

“There is no evil in the world without a remedy.”

Jacopo Sannazaro

Ecloga Octava; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Evil".

“He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of woman.”

Jacopo Sannazaro

Ne l'onde solca, e ne l'arena semina,
E'l vago vento spera in rete accogliere
Chi sue speranze fonda in cor di femina.
Ecloga Octava; "Plough the sands" found in Juvenal, Satires, VII. Jeremy Taylor, Discourse on Liberty of Prophesying (1647), Introduction.

“Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.”

Jacopo Sannazaro

L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera,
E si dilegua come agnel per fascino.
Ecloga Octava; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Envy".

“Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.”

Jacopo Sannazaro

Tanto è miser l'uom quant' ei si riputa.
Ecloga Octava; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Mind".

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