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Sannazaro, Jacopo
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Sannazaro, Jacopo (1456–1530)

Italian poet and humanist. He wrote verse and prose in both Latin and Italian. His Arcadia (1504) was the first pastoral romance in Italian; it established the form that was later to become very popular throughout Europe.



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17) One of his contemporaries and associates was Jacopo Sannazaro (1458-1530), whose Rime, published posthumously in 1530, are more derivative and "orthodox" in their Petrarchan elocutionary strategies than his, and certainly less varied and extensive in their thematic motifs.
Citing Petrarch in Naples: the politics of commentary in Cariteo's ... by Kennedy, William J. / Renaissance Quarterly
The very choice to write in vernacular ottave, as opposed to Trissino's blank verse or the Latin of Petrarch, Jacopo Sannazaro and Marco Girolamo Vida, establishes romance as the air Tasso's poem breathes.
Tasso's God: divine action in Gerusalemme Liberata * by Gregory, Tobias / Renaissance Quarterly
Its literary star was Jacopo Sannazaro, but his elegant output in both Latin and Italian remains more of a name known to all than a text read even by a few.
Sannazaro and Arcadia by Kennedy, William J. / Renaissance Quarterly
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