Editing Jacopo Sannazaro (section)

==Biography==
He was born in 1458 at Naples of a noble family of the [[Lomellina]], that claimed to derive its name from a seat in Lombard territory, at San Nazaro near [[Pavia]]. His father died ''ca'' 1462, during the boyhood of Jacopo, who was brought up at [[Nocera Inferiore]] and at [[San Cipriano Piacentino]] (hosted at the home of Family Sabato, located in Via Santilli) whose rural atmosphere colored his poetry. In 1483–85 he campaigned twice with Alfonso against papal forces near Rome.

In the [[Accademia Pontaniana]] that collected around [[Jovianus Pontanus|Giovanni Pontano (Jovianus Pontanus)]], he took the classicizing ''nom de plume'' of ''Actius Syncerus''. His withdrawal from Naples as a young man, sometimes treated as biographical, is apparently a purely literary ''trope''. He speedily achieved fame as a poet and a place as a courtier. Following the death of his major patron, Alfonso (1495), in 1499 he received his villa "Mergellina" near Naples from [[Frederick IV of Naples|Frederick IV]], but when Frederick capitulated to France and Aragon, he followed him into exile in France in 1501, whence he returned to Mergellina after Frederick's death at Tours (1504). The later years of the poet seem to have been spent at Naples. In 1525 he succeeded the humanist [[Pietro Summonte]] as head of the Pontanian academy.