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July 28, 1458 – August 6, 1530

Jacopo Sannazaro (28 July 1458 – 6 August 1530) was an Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples.

Al mondo mal non e senza rimedio.

here is no evil in the world without a remedy.
— Jacopo Sannazaro, Ecloga Octava

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Tanto è miser l'uom quant' ei si riputa.

Jacopo Sannazaro
— Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
— Jacopo Sannazaro, Ecloga Octava.

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Al mondo mal non e senza rimedio.

Jacopo Sannazaro
— Translation: There is no evil in the world without a remedy.
— Ecloga Octava; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Evil".

Tags: mondo, senza, rimedio

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L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera,E si dilegua come agnel per fascino.

Jacopo Sannazaro
— Translation: Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
— Ecloga Octava; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Envy".

Tags: L'invidia, figliuol, mio, stessa, dilegua, agnel, fascino

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Tanto è miser l'uom quant' ei si riputa.

Jacopo Sannazaro
— Translation: Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
— Ecloga Octava; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Mind".

Tags: Tanto, miser, l'uom, quant', ei, riputa

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Ne l'onde solca, e ne l'arena semina,E'l vago vento spera in rete accogliereChi sue speranze fonda in cor di femina.

Jacopo Sannazaro
— Translation: 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.
— Ecloga Octava; "Plough the sands" found in Juvenal, Satires, VII. Jeremy Taylor, Discourse on Liberty of Prophesying (1647), Introduction.

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L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera, E si dilegua come agnel per fascino.

Jacopo Sannazaro
— Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
— Jacopo Sannazaro, Ecloga Octava.

Tags: L'invidia, figliuol, mio, stessa, dilegua, agnel, fascino

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