William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon." His most famous works included the tragedy Hamlet and A Midsummer's Night Dream.
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His famous work, Don Quixote, considered to be the first modern European novel, is a classic of Western literature. Another one of his most most honored works was “Don Quixote.”
Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri was a important Italian poet of the Renni. His Divine Comedy, originally called Commedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely known . Another one of his famous poems was La Vita Nuova (“New Life”).
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer was a Fourteenth English poet. He was mostly considered the greatest of the Middle Ages. He was known as the Father of English literature. Chaucer's best piece of work was "The Hall of Fame."
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. One of his famous works was The Prince.
Francesco Petrarch
Francesco Petrarca, known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet, and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism."
vernacular - everyday language people speak in a region
printing press - a movable machine, as a cylinder press, for printing on paper
printing press - a movable machine, as a cylinder press, for printing on paper