Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Jacopo Sannazaro

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian poet Jacopo Sannazaro.
Last updated on April 18, 2025.
Jacopo Sannazaro

Jacopo Sannazaro was an Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples.

Italian - Poet | 1458 - 1530
Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
There is no evil in the world without a remedy. — © Jacopo Sannazaro
There is no evil in the world without a remedy.
Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.
He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of a woman. [It., Ne l'onde solca, e ne l'arena semina, E'l vago vento spera in rete acogliere Chi sue speranze fonda in cor di femina.]
Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned. [Lat., Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima.]
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