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Luís de Camões
Luís de Camões (c. 1524/5–1580) was a Portuguese poet and soldier, regarded as Portugal's national poet and author of the 1572 epic Os Lusíadas, which celebrates Vasco da Gama's voyage to India.
Luis de León
Luis de León, or Fray Luis de León, was a Spanish Augustinian friar, poet, and professor at the University of Salamanca, imprisoned by the Inquisition from 1572 to 1576.
Manilius
Manilius is a Roman poet known only by name who authored the Astronomica, a five-book didactic poem on astrology written partly under Augustus and probably finished under Tiberius.
Marco Girolamo Vida
Marco Girolamo Vida (c. 1485–1566) was an Italian humanist poet and bishop of Alba, best known for the Christiad, a Neo-Latin epic on the life of Christ.
Marie de France
Marie de France, writing in Anglo-Norman French in the late 12th century, is regarded as the first woman to compose literary texts in French, best known for her twelve Lais.
Martial
Martial, born Marcus Valerius Martialis in Spain around 40 CE, was a Roman poet who brought the Latin epigram, a brief satirical verse form, to perfection.
Matteo Maria Boiardo
Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441–1494) was an Italian Renaissance poet and count of Scandiano who served the Este court of Ferrara and wrote the unfinished epic Orlando innamorato, which Ariosto continued.
Maximianus
Maximianus is a sixth-century Latin elegiac poet of Italy, author of six elegies on lost youth and love, sometimes called the last of the Roman poets.
Meleager
Meleager was a Greek epigrammatist from Gadara, active around 100 BCE, whose Garland anthology of epigrams became the principal root of the Greek Anthology tradition.
Naevius
Gnaeus Naevius (ca. 270 – ca. 201 BC) was an early Latin poet who served in the First Punic War and wrote the Bellum Punicum, the first Roman national epic.
Neidhart von Reuental
Neidhart von Reuental, also der von Riuwental, was a German Minnesänger of the first half of the 13th century, founder of satirical courtly village poetry.
Neoterics
The Neoterics were a group of first-century BCE Roman poets, including Catullus and Licinius Calvus, who wrote short, highly polished verse modeled on Hellenistic Greek poetry.
Nicander
Nicander (Νίκανδρος) of Colophon was a Greek didactic poet of the 2nd century BC whose surviving poems, the Theriaca and the Alexipharmaca, treat venomous creatures and poisons.
Nonnus
Nonnus of Panopolis was a Greek poet of the fifth century CE from Panopolis in Upper Egypt, author of the Dionysiaca, the longest surviving ancient Greek epic.
Otfrid of Weissenburg
Otfrid of Weissenburg, also Otfried, was a ninth-century Frankish monk at Weissenburg in Alsace, first named Old High German poet and author of the Evangelienbuch, the earliest long poem in Old High German.
Ovid
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–17 CE), Roman poet of the Amores, Heroides, Ars Amatoria, Metamorphoses, Fasti, and exile poetry (Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto); banished by Augustus in 8 CE to Tomis, where he died; major influence on later European literature and art.
Palladas
Palladas (Παλλαδᾶς) was a Greek epigrammatist and schoolmaster in 4th-century Alexandria, whose roughly 150 surviving epigrams in the Greek Anthology make him a principal late-antique epigrammatist.
Persius
Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus, 34–62 CE) was a Roman poet who wrote six Stoic verse satires and ranks with Horace and Juvenal among the canonical Roman satirists.
Petrarch
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch), Italian poet and scholar (1304–1374), first great humanist of the Renaissance; author of the Canzoniere's 366 poems on Laura, the unfinished Triumphi, and Latin works; openly dissenting from Dante's literary authority.
Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) was an English poet, courtier, soldier, and critic who wrote Astrophil and Stella, Arcadia, and The Defence of Poesy before dying of a wound at Zutphen in 1586.
Philitas of Cos
Philitas of Cos (Philetas, c. 340 – c. 285 BC) was a Greek poet and scholar who tutored the future Ptolemy II and wrote the glossary Ataktoi glossai.
Pietro Bembo
Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) was a Venetian humanist, Petrarchan poet, and cardinal whose Prose della volgar lingua (1525) set the standard of written Italian for centuries.
Propertius
Sextus Propertius (Sextus Propertius, ca. 50–16 BC), Augustan Latin elegiac poet of four books of Elegies centered on his mistress Cynthia; rival of Tibullus, model for Ovid, self-styled Roman Callimachus.
Prudentius
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348–after 405), Spanish Christian Latin poet, author of Cathemerinon, Peristephanon, Apotheosis, Hamartigenia, Contra Symmachum, and the Psychomachia, the first full-scale personification allegory.
Rufinus (epigrammatist)
Rufinus (Ῥουφῖνος) was a Greek poet of the Roman imperial period, otherwise unknown, whose about 35 erotic epigrams survive in Book V of the Greek Anthology.
Sappho
Sappho (Σαπφώ, Aeolic Ψάπφα), archaic Greek lyric poet of Lesbos, late 7th to early 6th century BCE; author of the Ode to Aphrodite and the Sapphic stanza; only about 650 of over 10,000 ancient lines survive, expanded by the 2004 and 2014 papyrus finds.
Silius Italicus
Silius Italicus, full name Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (c. 26–102 CE), was a Roman politician and poet who wrote the Punica, the longest poem surviving in Latin.
Simonides of Ceos
Simonides of Ceos (c. 556 – 468/7 BC) was a Greek poet from Iulis on Ceos, ranked with Pindar, whose epigrams commemorated Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea.
Statius
Statius was a Latin poet of the Flavian age, best known for the Thebaid, a twelve-book epic on the war of the Seven against Thebes.
Stesichorus
Stesichorus (Στησίχορος), traditionally named Teisias, was a Greek lyric poet from Himera in Sicily, active c. 600–550 BC, who retold Trojan and Heraclean myths on an epic scale.