Dutch theologian and scholar.

• Wrote In Praise of Folly

English satiric poet.

• Wrote ''''The Tunning of Elinour Rumming''''

French essayist.

• Influential prose stylist

French poet.

• Wrote Odes

English writer, diplomat, and statesman. Chancellor under Henry VIII; beheaded for refusing to deny the pope's authority over the English church. Canonized by the Roman Catholic church in 1935.

• Wrote Utopia

English theologian.

• Wrote Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

English poet known for his sonnets.

• Wrote ''''They Flee from Me''''

English poet.

• Wrote ''''The Soote Season''''

English poet, statesman and soldier.

• Wrote the sonnet cycle Astrophel and Stella

English poet.

• Wrote The Faerie Queene

English playwright and poet.

• Wrote The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus

English poet and diplomat.

• Wrote ''''My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is''''

English adventurer, poet and historian. A favorite of Elizabeth I.

• Wrote ''''Farewell, False Love''''

English essayist and poet.

• Wrote ''''The Burning Babe''''

English novelist, poet, and playwright.

• Wrote The Unfortunate Traveler

English poet and musician.

• Wrote ''''Never Love Unless You Can''''

English playwright and poet.

• Wrote Sonnets and over three dozen plays

Florentine government official and political theorist.

• Wrote The Prince

French poet.

• Championed the use of French (rather than Latin or Italian) as a literary language

Leading poet of the French Renaissance, also known for his translations.

• Wrote L''Enfer

French playwright and poet.

• Wrote Cléopâtre captive

French soldier, poet and historian.

• Wrote Les Tragiques

French humanist, physician, priest and writer.

• Wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel

Hungarian lyric poet.

• Wrote many poems about love, war and religion

Italian monk, diplomat, soldier, and short-story writer.

• His Nouvelle (''''Stories'''') provided the plots for several of Shakespeare''s plays, including Romeo and Juliet

Florentine goldsmith and sculptor.

• Wrote a famous autobiography

Italian diplomat, courtier and writer.

• Wrote The Courtier

Spanish soldier and poet.

• Wrote the epic poem La Araucana

The leading poet of Renaissance Poland.

• Wrote Treny (''''Laments'''')

Italian poet.

• Wrote the first pastoral romance, Arcadia

A leading poet of the Italian Renaissance.

• Wrote the epic poem Gerusalemme liberata (''''Jerusalem Liberated'''')

Queen of England and Ireland, 1558-1603.

• Wrote numerous sonnets

Italian poet who was a close friend of Michelangelo.

• Wrote religious poems and a series of sonnets in memory of her husband

French humanist poet.

• Wrote Débat de Folie et d''Amour (''''Debate of Love and Folly'''')

Spanish mystic and Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church.

• Wrote The Way of Perfection

French writer and patron of the arts. Sister of King François I; wife of Henri II of Navarre.

• Wrote the Heptaméron