Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Jacopo Sannazaro
Born: July 28, 1458
Died: April 24, 1530 (aged 71)
Bio: Jacopo Sannazaro was an Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples.
Known for:
- Arcadia (1504)
- The Major Latin Poems of Jacopo Sannazaro