Jacopo Sannazaro Quotes

Italian writer (1457–1530)

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

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

Translation: Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

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.

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