ameto

Updated: June 8, 2025

In his 'Ameto' he describes a blonde and a brunette much as an artist a hundred years later would have painted them for here, too, culture long precedes art. In the account of the brunette or, strictly speaking, of the less blonde of the two there are touches which deserve to be called classical.

Jacob Burckhardt - The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Indeed, were we here concerned in assigning to its historical source each particular trait in individual works, rather than in tracing the general development of an idea, it would be casier to distinguish a faint and slightly cynical reminiscence of Daphnis and Chloe in the Aminta and Pastor fido than in the Ameto or the Arcadia.

Walter W. Greg - Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration: Stage in England