Garcilaso de la Vega (Toledo, 1501 - Nice, 1536), courtier and soldier of Carlos V, managed to introduce the forms and spirit of the Renaissance in Spanish poetry, with a work of great beauty and delicate musicality, which was the expression of a tormented and pathetic sensuality, with continuous references to impossible love - either because it goes against social norms, or because the death of the beloved ensues. A pain of love that comes to constitute the very identity of man - They will not be able to take away my pain / feeling, if they do not completely / first take away my sense - and that is solved, in his last pastoral poetry, in a true sublimation Neoplatonic cut, in a hedonistic enjoyment of the landscape, music and art.