Jacopo Sannazaro in the context of "Arcadia (poem)"

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 (e.g., Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare, Marguerite de Navarre, Jorge de Montemayor, Garcilaso de la Vega and John Milton).