Jacopo Sannazaro Quotes
July 28, 1458 – August 6, 1530
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Tanto è miser l'uom quant' ei si riputa.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. 
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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".
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".
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".
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.
Al mondo mal non e senza rimedio.
Jacopo Sannazaro— here is no evil in the world without a remedy.
— Jacopo Sannazaro, Ecloga Octava
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.
