Life & Wisdom Quote by Jacopo Sannazaro

Optimism, yes, but not the cuddly kind. In Sannazaro's line, “There is no evil in the world without a remedy,” the comfort comes with a Renaissance edge: evil is real, pervasive, and assumed. The wager is that it is also legible - something you can name, diagnose, and answer. That’s a poet borrowing the confidence of an age newly enamored with systems: classical philosophy rediscovered, medicine and natural inquiry inching forward, and Christian moral logic insisting that the world, however fallen, still bends toward providential order.

The specific intent reads like moral ballast. Sannazaro isn’t denying suffering; he’s arguing against paralysis. The remedy may be practical (time, counsel, law), spiritual (grace, repentance), or aesthetic (the pastoral’s power to imagine harmony when politics and plague won’t deliver it). Coming from a writer associated with pastoral idealization, the line also functions as a pressure valve: if you can’t fix Naples’ instability or the era’s brutality, you can at least hold onto a worldview where disorder isn’t the final word.

The subtext is where it sharpens. “No evil…without a remedy” quietly flatters human agency while keeping God in the background as guarantor. It suggests a universe that doesn’t waste pain - every wound implies a salve. That’s rhetorically effective because it turns despair into a kind of intellectual laziness: if remedies exist, the ethical task is to search, not to surrender. It’s a sentence built to steady readers facing a world that often looked unremedied.