Works published Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay
language. The compilation of Romances de los
Señores de Nueva España, a collection of Aztec poetry.
Births and deaths = England =
John Skelton George Gascoigne
Sir Walter Ralegh Edmund Spenser
Sir Philip Sidney Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare John Donne
Ben Jonson Robert Herrick
George Herbert = France =
Jean Molinet, French poet, chronicler, and composer
Olivier de la Marche, French poet and author
Clément Marot Marguerite de Navarre
Bonaventure des Périers Louise Labe
Maurice Sceve Pierre de Ronsard
Joachim du Bellay Jean de Sponde
Jean de la Ceppede Agrippa d'Aubigne
François de Malherbe French-language Swiss
Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné Simon Goulart
= Germany = Erasmus Alberus
Johann Valentin Andreae Johann Beltz
Sebastian Brant Conrad Celtis
Nikolaus Decius Johann Fischart
Hans Folz Sebastian Franck
Konrad Gesner Johann Heermann
Nikolaus Herman Mathias Holtzwart
Anna Ovena Hoyer Ulrich von Hutten(1488–1523)
Georg List Ambrosius Lobwasser
Martin Luther Philipp Melanchthon
Thomas Müntzer Philipp Nicolai
Martin Opitz Jakob Regnart
Adam Reusner Bartholomäus Ringwaldt
Hans Sachs Paulus Schede Melissus
Johann Hermann Schein Johannes Secundus
Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld Paul Speratus
Josua Stegmann Georg Rodolf Weckherlin
Michael Weisse Diederich von dem Werder
Christoff Wirsung Julius Wilhelm Zincgref
Georgius Agricola German-language Swiss
Nicholas Manuel = Italy =
Benedetto Cariteo Teofilo Folengo
Lodovico Ariosto, also a Latin poet Torquato Tasso
Pietro Bembo, Cardinal and influential critic
Vittoria Colonna Gaspara Stampa, woman poet
Antonio Sebastiano Minturno, writer and poet
= Japan = Arakida Moritake 荒木田守武, the son of Negi
Morihide, and a Shinto priest; said to have excelled in waka, renga, and in
particular haikai Hosokawa Fujitaka 細川藤孝, also known as
Hosokawa Yūsai 細川幽斎, a Sengoku period feudal warlord who was a prominent
retainer of the last Ashikaga shoguns; father of Hosokawa Tadaoki, an Oda clan
senior general; after the 1582 Incident at Honnō-ji, he took the Buddhist
tonsure and changed his name to "Yūsai"; but he remained an active force in
politics, under Shoguns Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu
Satomura Shokyu 里村昌休, Japanese leading master of the linked verse renga after
the death of Tani Sobuko in 1545 Sōgi 宗祇, Japanese Zen monk who studied
waka and renga poetry, then became a professional renga poet in his 30s
Tani Soyo 谷宗養, renga poet; a rival of Satomura Joha; son of Tani Sobuko
Yamazaki Sōkan 山崎宗鑑, pen name of Shina Norishige, renga and haikai poet, court
calligrapher for Shogun Ashikaga Yoshihisa; became a secluded Buddhist
monk following the shogun's death in 1489
= Latin = Battista Spagnoli, Italian
Giovanni Pontano, Italian Michael Marullus, Italian
Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian Andrea Navagero, Italian
Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian Marcantonio Flaminio, Italian
Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian Conrad Celtis, German
Salmon Macrin, French Joannes Secundus, Dutch
Lodovico Ariosto, Italian who also published poetry in Italian
Joachim Du Bellay, Frenchman who also published poetry in French
Jan Kochanowski, Pole who also published poetry in Polish
Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish Jesuit and poet
Jacob Balde, German Jesuit and poet = Netherlands =
Barlaeus, also known as Kaspar van Baerle
Suster Bertken Anna Bijns
Adriaen Valerius Joost van den Vondel, Dutch writer
considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century
= Ottoman Empire = Bâkî
Fuzûlî Hayâlî
Necati Selim II, sultan and poet
Suleyman the Magnificent Tashcali Yahya Bey
Ruhi-i Bagdadi Nef'i
Seyhulislam Yahya Pir Sultan Abdal
= Persian language = Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect,
philosopher, and poet Vahshi Bafghi
= Poland = Biernat of Lublin
Mikolaj Rej Jan Kochanowski
Mikolaj September Szarzynski Sebastian Grabowiecki
Sebastian Fabian Klonowic Szymon Szymonowic
Daniel Naborowski Kasper Miakskowski
= Portugal = Garcia de Resende
Gil Vicente, poet and playwright Francisco de Sá de Miranda
Bernardim Ribeiro Cristovao Falcao
Luís de Camões Diogo Bernardes, brother of Frei
Agostinho da Cruz Frei Agostinho da Cruz, brother of Diogo
Bernardes Francisco Rodrigues Lobo
Antonio de Ferreira Mellin de Saint Gelais
= Slovakia = Martin Rakovský
Ján Silván Pavel Kyrmezer
Vavřinec Benedikt z Nudožer Ján Filický
Ján Bocatius Jakub Jakobeus
Martin Bošňák Štefan Komodický
Eliáš Láni Daniel Pribiš
Juraj Tranovský or Tranoscius = South Asia =
Akho, Gujarati-language poet, Vedantist and radical
Bhalam, Gujarati-language poet Sant Eknath संत एकनाथ or Eknāth; the
epithet "sant" संत is traditionally given to persons regarded as thoroughly
saintly, Marathi-language poet and scholar
Sant Tukaram संत तुकाराम, Marathi-language poet
Krishnadevaraya, king of the Vijayanagara empire and
Sanskrit-language poet Annamacharya శ్రీ తాళ్ళపాక అన్నమాచార్య,
mystic saint composer of the 15th century, widely regarded as the
Telugu-language pada kavita pitaamaha; husband of Tallapaka Tirumalamma
Molla, also known as "Mollamamba", both popular names of Atukuri Molla
Telugu-language poet who wrote Telugu Ramayan; a woman
Potana, born Bammera Pothana, Telugu-language poet best known for his
translation of the Bhagavata Purana from Sanskrit; the book is popularly known as
Pothana Bhagavatham Habba Khatun
Meerabai, alternate spelling: Meera, Mira, Meera Bai; Hindu poet-saint,
mystical poetess whose compositions, extant version of which are in Gujarati
and a Rajasthani dialect of Hindi, remain popular throughout India
Gosvāmī Tulsīdās तुलसीदास, also known as "Tulasī Dāsa" and "Tulsidas" Awadhi poet
and philosopher = Spain =
Juan Boscán Garcilaso de la Vega
Diego Hurtado de Mendoza Hernando de Acuña
Baltasar del Alcázar Francisco de Aldana
Gutierre de Cetina Cristóbal de Castillejo
Luis de León San Juan de la Cruz
Alonso de Ledesma Lope de Vega, playwright and poet
Fernando de Herrera Luis Barahona de Soto
Pedro de Espinosa Francisco de Rioja
Francisco de Medrano Alonso de Ercilla
= Other = Jeong Cheol, Korean poet
Hwang Jin-i, Korean poet Judah Leone Modena, also known as: Leon
Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena, a rabbi, orator, scholar, teacher and poet
Israel ben Moses Najara, Hebrew poet in Palestine
Ali-Shir Nava'i, also known as "Nizām al-Din"; pen name "Navā'ī" Persian:
نوایی‎‎, meaning "the weeper", Central Asian politician, mystic, linguist,
painter, and poet of Chaghatai origin who was born and lived in Herat, in
modern-day Afghanistan; his Chagatai language poetry has led many throughout
the Turkic-speaking world to consider him the founder of early Turkic
literature, and the Uzbeks claim him as their national poet
See also 16th century in literature
Castalian Band Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age
literature Elizabethan literature
English Madrigal School French Renaissance literature
Renaissance literature Spanish Renaissance literature
University Wits Decades and years
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