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Hardcover The Arcadia of Jacopo Sannazaro: A New Translation with Commentary Book

ISBN: 0472133578

ISBN13: 9780472133574

The Arcadia of Jacopo Sannazaro: A New Translation with Commentary

Five hundred years ago, working from hints in classical Greek and Latin poets, the young author Jacopo Sannazaro crafted the book called Arcadia, a narrative in richly descriptive Italian prose interwoven with elegant and passionate poems. A young man--transparently a stand-in for the author--leaves his home in Naples to join a community of shepherds in the remote Greek region of Arcadia. Yet he finds that this seemingly idyllic land is as...

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