Baroque literature

16th- and 17th-century period of cultural and literary flourishing coinciding with the rise of the Spanish Empire

The Précieuses ( , i.e. "preciousness") was a 17th-century French literary style and movement. The main features of this style are the refined language of aristocratic salons, periphrases, hyperbole, and puns on the theme of gallant love. The movement was similar to the Italian marinism, Spanish culteranismo, and English euphuism.

Culteranismo is a stylistic movement of the Baroque period of Spanish history that is also commonly referred to as Gongorismo (after Luis de Góngora). It began in the late 16th century with the writing of Luis de Góngora and lasted through the 17th century.

Conceptismo (literally, conceptism) is a literary movement of the Baroque period in the Spanish literature. It began in the late 16th century and lasted through the 17th century, also the period of the Spanish Golden Age. thumb|Francisco de Quevedo|Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, the most significant representative of Baroque conceptismo thumb|Baltasar Gracián Conceptismo is characterized by a rapid rhythm, directness, simple vocabulary, witty metaphors, and wordplay. In this style, multiple meanings are conveyed in a very concise manner, and conceptual intricacies are emphasised over elabora

literary movement

18th-century Belarusian satirical work

literary society

18th-century Belarusian satirical work

'''''L'Adone''' (Adonis) is an epic poem in Italian by Giovan Battista Marino, first published in Paris in 1623 by Olivier de Varennes (1598-1666) and dedicated to Louis XIII. It tells the love story of Venus and the eponymous Adonis and with 5,124 ottave and 40,992 verses is one of the longest poems in Italian literature - it is slightly longer than Orlando furioso and around three times as long as the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme liberata''.