Jacopo Sannazaro
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"Jacopo Sannazaro" was an Italian poet, Renaissance humanism/humanist and epigrammist from Kingdom of Naples/Naples.

He wrote easily in Latin language/Latin, in Italian and in Neapolitan language/Neapolitan, but is best remembered for his humanist classic Arcadia (poem)/Arcadia, a masterwork that illustrated the possibilities of poetical prose in Italian, and instituted the theme of Arcadia (utopia)/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.

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

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

Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned.

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