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Tannhäuser
Tannhäuser (Der Tannhäuser), a 13th-century German Minnesänger (c. 1228-c. 1268) and subject of the Venusberg legend; Heinrich Heine retold it and Richard Wagner's 1845 opera fused it with the 1207 Wartburg song contest.
Theocritus
Theocritus (Θεόκριτος) was a Hellenistic Greek poet from Syracuse, active in the early 3rd century BCE, whose pastoral Idylls, reworked by Virgil, founded the European pastoral tradition.
Theognis of Megara
Theognis of Megara (Θέογνις ὁ Μεγαρεύς) was an archaic Greek elegiac poet whose name is attached to the Theognidea, a collection of about 1,389 lines of moral verse.
Thomas Murner
Thomas Murner (1475–1537) was a Franciscan priest and German satirist from Oberehnheim in Alsace, famed for the Narrenbeschwörung and Schelmenzunft and for roughly thirty anti-Luther pamphlets.
Tibullus
Tibullus (c. 54 – 19 BC) was a Latin poet of the Augustan age, one of the principal Roman writers of love elegy, alongside Propertius and Ovid.
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) was an Italian poet of the sixteenth century, best known for the pastoral play Aminta (1573) and the epic poem Gerusalemme liberata on the First Crusade.
Valerius Flaccus
Valerius Flaccus was a Roman epic poet of the Flavian age (69–96 CE) who wrote the Argonautica, an unfinished eight-book Latin epic on Jason and the Argonauts.
Venantius Fortunatus
Venantius Fortunatus was an Italian-born Latin poet who made his career in Merovingian Gaul, became bishop of Poitiers around 599, and wrote hymns still sung in the Catholic liturgy.
Veronica Franco
Veronica Franco (1546-1591), Venetian cortigiana onesta and poet, author of Terze rime (1575) and Lettere familiari a diversi (1580), member of Domenico Venier's circle, tried by the Inquisition in 1580, later a proto-feminist icon.
Virgil
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro; Italian: Publio Virgilio Marone; 70–19 BCE), Roman poet of the Augustan period, author of the ten Eclogues, the four-book Georgics, and the unfinished twelve-book Aeneid, published after his death at Brundisium.
Vittoria Colonna
Vittoria Colonna, marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian poet (1490–1547), the most celebrated female Petrarchist of the sixteenth century, whose Rime were first printed in 1538.
Wace
Wace, born on Jersey around 1100 and a canon of Bayeux, was a Norman poet whose Roman de Brut (1155) gives the first French account of King Arthur.
Walther von der Vogelweide
Walther von der Vogelweide (about 1170 to 1230) was a Middle High German lyric poet, regarded as the most important German lyricist of the Middle Ages.
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (Guilhem de Peitieus) was a French nobleman and the earliest troubadour whose work survives, with eleven songs written in Occitan.
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1170 to c. 1220) was a Middle High German poet best known for Parzival, the Grail romance composed between 1200 and 1210.