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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 (e.g., William Shakespeare, Philip Sidney,[1] Marguerite de Navarre, Jorge de Montemayor,[2] Garcilaso de la Vega and John Milton).