Arcadia (poem)
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Arcadia is a pastoral poem written around 1480 by Jacopo Sannazaro and published in 1504 in Naples. Sannazaro's Arcadia influenced the literature of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Arcadia Shepherd by Cesare Saccaggi from Tortona
Eclogues
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The Eclogues, also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil.
Arcadia (poem)
…Arcadia and now consisted of a dedication, an introduction, twelve units of prose and verse, and an epilogue (A la Zampogna – To the bagpipes). Three eclogues (I, II and VI) were probably composed before Sannazaro planned to write Arcadia. They were modified and added to the Pastoral novel. The first version…
The opening lines of the Eclogues in the 5th-century Vergilius Romanus
Incipit page of Eclogue 1 in a 1482 Italian translation of Bucolics