Renaissance writers

Italian poet (1544–1595)

Polish Renaissance poet (1530–1584)

Byzantine Greek scholar, diplomat, and professor (c. 1350–1415)

Roman Catholic archbishop

Countess of Pembroke, poet, and literary patron

Renaissance Hebrew grammarian, scholar and poet (1469–1549)

Greek academic

Dutch physician and naturalist (1511-1575)

Dalmatian poet and mathematician

English poet

Spanish Renaissance writer

Greek writer

Spanish writer

Polish nobleman and writer

Swiss theologian, priest and preacher (1595-1649)

Spanish writer

Spanish writer

Flemish-Dutch priest and poet

legendary Renaissance alchemist and teacher of Paracelsus

fencing master and writer from the Netherlands (1574-1629), owner/creator of the album amicorum of Gerard Thibault

German writer

Portuguese writer

16th-century Italian scholar and translator

Italian philologist (1555-1616)