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The article examines some possibilities that can be inferred from dramatist John Ford's attempt to associate poet Jacopo Sannazaro with Venice, Italy in his play "'Tis Pity She's a Whore." At the play's early stage, the character Soranzo is shown alone reading a book containing Sannazaro's encomium on Venice. One possibility for associating the poet to Venice is said to be English poet Sir Philip Sidney's interest in Sannazaro. Another possibility is that Ford encountered a copy of Sannazaro's work in the hands of a man whose wife was named Venetia.

The article focuses on the genre of pastoral literature in the 16th and 17th centuries, a literary theme describing a kind of harmony between men and nature. According to the article, 16th-century pastoral fiction comes from ancient pastoral poetry and it unites several features, giving a sense of balance to the fate of characters, including idyllic settings, moral psychology and elegant writing style. The author mentions the books "L'Arcadie," by Jacopo Sannazaro, "Les 7 livres de Diane," by Jorge de Montemayor, and "La Galatée," by Miguel de Cervantès.

The article presents information about madrigals published in Luca Marenzio's only book for four voices. It is a setting of the concluding lines of eclogue VIII from Jacopo Sannazaro's book Arcadia. Marenzio drew extensively from the works of Sannazaro. The madrigal discussed in the article is different as far as the metrical structure of the text, i.e. tercets of versi sdruccioli is concerned. An sdrucciolo line is one in which the last accented syllable is followed by two unaccented ones. Or to put it differently, the ending of the line coincides with a proparoxytone word.

Examines how the women characters in "Diana of George Montemayor" influenced the defense of women in Lady Mary Wroth's "Urania." Description of the women characters in "Diana," "The Sage Felicia" and "Grave Melissea"; Comparison between the depiction of women in "Diana" and "Arcadia," by Jacopo Sannazaro.