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SANNAZARO, JACOPO (1458-1530)

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SANNAZARO, JACOPO (1458-1530) , See also:Italian poet of the See also:Renaissance, was See also:born in 1458 at See also:Naples of a See also:noble See also:family, said to have been of See also:Spanish origin, which had its seat at See also:San Nazaro near See also:Pavia. His See also:father died during the boyhood of Jacopo, who was brought up at Nocera Inferiore. He afterwards studied at Naples under Giovanni See also:Pontanus, when, according to the See also:fashion of the See also:time, he assumed the name Actius Syncerus, by which he is occasionally referred to. After the See also:death of his See also:mother he went abroad—driven, we are told, by the pangs of despised love for a certain Carmosina, whom he has celebrated in his See also:verse under various names; but of the details of his travels nothing is recorded. On his return he speedily achieved fame as a poet and See also:place as a courtier, receiving from See also:Frederick III. as a See also:country See also:residence the See also:Villa Mergillina near Naples. When his See also:patron was compelled to take See also:refuge in See also:France in 1501 he was accompanied by Sannazaro, who did not return to See also:Italy till after his death (1504). The later years of the poet seem to have been spent at Naples. He died on the 27th of See also:April 1530. The See also:Arcadia of Sannazaro, begun in See also:early See also:life and published in 1504, is a somewhat affected and insipid Italian See also:pastoral, in which in alternate See also:prose and verse the scenes and occupations of pastoral life are described. See Scherillo's edition (See also:Turin, 1888). His now seldom read Latin poem De partu Virginis, which gained for him the name of the " See also:Christian See also:Virgil," appeared in 1526, and his collected Sonetti e canzoni in 1530.

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