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