WRITER

Jacopo Sannazaro

1458 - 1530

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Jacopo Sannazaro (Italian pronunciation: [ˈjaːkopo sannadˈdzaːro]; 28 July 1458 – 6 August 1530) was an Italian poet, humanist, member and head of the Accademia Pontaniana from Naples. He wrote easily in Latin, in Italian and in Neapolitan, but is best remembered for his humanist classic Arcadia, a masterwork that illustrated the possibilities of poetical prose in Italian, and instituted the theme of Arcadia, representing an idyllic land, in European literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacopo Sannazaro has received more than 86,050 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Jacopo Sannazaro is the 1,505th most popular writer (up from 1,579th in 2019), the 1,627th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,680th in 2019) and the 107th most popular Italian Writer.

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Notable Works

Arcadia
Accessible book
1525
De partu virginis
Accessible book, Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Poetry
1526
L' Arcadia
1559
Rime
1559
Iacobi Sannazarii Opera omnia
1549
Opere
1952

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jacopo Sannazaro ranks 1,505 out of 7,302. Before him are Georges Duhamel, Ibn al-Khatib, Elsa Beskow, Guillaume de Lorris, Aksel Sandemose, and Henry de Montherlant. After him are Olaus Petri, Jonas Mekas, George of Pisidia, Louise Labé, Vladimir Korolenko, and Hjalmar Söderberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1458, Jacopo Sannazaro ranks 5. Before him are Saint Casimir, Sebastian Brant, Piri Mehmed Pasha, and Eleanor of Viseu. After him are Katherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham, and John II, Duke of Cleves. Among people deceased in 1530, Jacopo Sannazaro ranks 11. Before him are Thomas Wolsey, Maximilian Sforza, Joanna la Beltraneja, Konstanty Ostrogski, Judah Leon Abravanel, and Luis Ramírez de Lucena. After him are Pêro da Covilhã, Bramantino, Properzia de' Rossi, Marco Basaiti, Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, and Nicholas, Count of Salm.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Jacopo Sannazaro ranks 1,627 out of 5,161. Before him are Bernardo Pasquini (1637), Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy (1940), Natalie of Serbia (1859), Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy (1632), Salvatore Giuliano (1922), and Franco Battiato (1945). After him are Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1683), Margarita Luti (1500), Vittoria Aleotti (1575), Dino Grandi (1895), Riz Ortolani (1926), and Pier Luigi Nervi (1891).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Jacopo Sannazaro ranks 107. Before him are Ubertino of Casale (1259), Ignazio Silone (1900), Quintus Fabius Pictor (-254), Lucrezia Tornabuoni (1427), Enzo of Sardinia (1220), and Thomas of Celano (1185). After him are Catherine of Bologna (1413), Asconius Pedianus (-9), Giovannino Guareschi (1908), Corax of Syracuse (-500), Giorgio Bassani (1916), and Rafael Sabatini (1875).

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