Category
page 1Renaissance literature

In Praise of Folly
1509 essay by Desiderius Erasmus
Fernando de Rojas
Spanish author and playwright
Spanish Golden Age
16th- and 17th-century period of cultural and literary flourishing coinciding with the rise of the Spanish Empire

La Celestina
Spanish literary tragicomedy
Renaissance literature
European literature influenced by the Renaissance

Amadis de Gaula
early 16th century novel
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
work by Francesco Colonna
mirror for princes
educational literary genre

The Book of the Courtier
non-fiction work by Baldassarre Castiglione
Mem and Zin
book

Classical tradition
reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by the post-classical Western world
Cosimo Bartoli
Italian diplomat, mathematician, philologist and humanist
Spanish Renaissance literature
French Renaissance literature
literature written in French from 1494 to 1600

Arcadia
work by Jacopo Sannazaro
Il Guerrin Meschino
novel by Andrea da Barberino
Enzo Giudici
Italian academic (1920-1985)
Leone de' Sommi
Italian writer