Jacopo Sannazaro

“There is in the midst of Arcadia a mountain, by name Parthenius, not the least famous of the mountains of pastoral Greece.”

“So with my flock I will abide, and live and die a shepherd swain.”

“For often in a humble hut, in a narrow space, one lives more peacefully than in royal halls.”

“Learn, O woods, to resound the name of my beautiful Phyllis.”

“O peaceful and serene solitude, O sweet and desired rest of troubled minds!”

“Weep, O rocks, and you, O river trunks, complain with me.”