Draft:List of Neo-Latin authors

  • Comment: Per your apparent consideration of my comments in the decline, you changed the name of the column from "Wikipedias" to "Wikis". Generally speaking, that kind of column is just unnecessary and should be removed or replaced with relevant and reliable external links. Pbritti (talk) 21:10, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
  • Comment: Most of the people here are listed without citation, including many with no article of their own that could be used to verify. The description given in the lead is somewhat lacking in depth—it is self-evident someone studying Neo-Latin authors would engage with Neo-Latin authors—and sourcing necessary to justify the scope of the list. The "On other Wikipedias" is both non-standard (just link their name in the first column using ILL) and inaccurate (WikiSource isn't technically a Wikipedia). Pbritti (talk) 20:28, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

This is a list of authors writing fiction, in prose or poetry, in a Neo-Latin idiom, highlighted by academics working in Neo-Latin studies as outstanding or important for their contribution to poetry, Latitinity, drama, or other prose. They are often the focus of current research in that field.

Neo-Latin was the first major international, standardised linguistic vehicle for printed works in Europe, and the dominant medium for academic and religious discourse during the sixteenth and start of the seventeenth century. As an international language, Neo-Latin authors often knew the works of contemporaries in other countries, as well as having common cultural references, through both Classical Roman and Greek texts, and later Christian works. While many Neo-Latin authors and works are less well known now, study of their works is important to understand the development of science, literature and vernacular literary cultures.

Neo-Latin literature and its notable authors are explored and identified in a number of standard reference works.[1]

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Name Latin name Dates Nationality Notes Genre
Pedro Pablo de Acevedo [Wikidata] 1522–73 Spanish
Joseph Addison Iosephus Addison 1672–1719 English
William Alabaster[2] Rodolphus Agricola 1444–84 English His Roxana (c. 1595) rated as next after Milton by Johnson[2] Drama
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Henricus Cornelius Agrippa ab Nettesheym 1486–1535 German
Rudolph Agricola 1444–84 English
Leon Battista Alberti Leo Baptista Albertus 1404–72 Italian
Andrea Alciato Andreas Alciatus 1492–1550 Italian
Marcantonio Aldegati [Wikidata] 1480–90
Ulysses Aldrovandi 1522–1605 Italian
Francisco Xavier Alegre Franciscus Xaverius Alegrius 1729–98
Jean le Rond d'Alembert 1717–83
Andrea Ammonio 1478–1517
Johann Valentin Andreae Johannes Valentinus Andreae 1586–1654
Publio Fausto Andrelini 1462–1518
Girolamo Angeriano Hieronymus Angerinaus 1470–1535 Italian
Giano Anisio [Wikidata] Janus Anisius 1465-1540 Italian
Giovanni Nanni of Viterbo Annius 1432–1502 Italian
Leonardo Bruni Leonardus Aretinus 1479–1540 Italian
Ludovico Ariosto 1474–1533
Francesco Arsilli [Wikidata] 1479–1540 Italian
Johannes Aventinus 1477–1534
Francis Bacon 1561–1626 English
Jacob Balde 1604–68
Matteo Bandello 1485–1561 Italian
Maffeo Barberini 1568–1644 Italian
John Barclay 1582–1621 Scottish
Caspar Barlaeus 1584–1648
Kaspar von Barth 1587–1658 German
Thomas Bartholin 1616–80
Gasparino Barzizza 1360–1431
Basinio Basini 1425–57 Italian
François Baudouin 1520–73
Bernardus Bauhusius [Wikidata] Bernardus Bauhusius 1575–1614 Dutch
Heinrich Bebel 1472–1518
Daniel Beckher [Wikidata] 1594–1655 German
Pietro Bembo Bembus 1470–1547
Francesco Benci [Wikidata] Franciscus Bencius 1542–94 Italian
Jan Benningh [Wikidata] Janus Bodecherus Banningius 1606–42
Matthias Bernegger 1582–1640
Jacob Bernoulli 1655–1705
Filippo Beroaldo 1453–1505
Sixt Birck Sixtus Betuleius 1501–54
Théodore de Bèze Theodorus Beza 1519–1605
Jakob Bidermann 1577–1639
Flavio Biondo 1392–1463
Thomas Bisse [Wikidata] 1675–1731
Johannes Bissel [Wikidata] Ioannes Bisselius 1601–82 German
Pierre de Blarru [Wikidata] 1437–1510 French
Giovanni Boccaccio 1313–75
Jean Bodin 1530–96
Hector Boethius 1465–1536
Giovanni Bona 1609–74
Antonio Bonfini 1434–1503
Giovanni Francesco Bordini [Wikidata] Johannes Franciscus Bordinus 1536–1609 Italian
Nicolas Bourbon 1503–1550
Mark Alexander Boyd Marcus Alexander Bodius 1562–1601
Alessandro Braccesi 1445–1503
Jacopo Bracciolini [Wikidata] 1442–78 Italian
Poggio Bracciolini Poggius Florentinus 1380–1459
Aurelio Lippo Brandolini 1454–97
Sebastian Brant 1457–1521
Gabriel Mudaeus Gabriël Mudaeus Brechtanus 1502–1560
John Bridges 1536–1618
John Brinsley 1566–1624
Leonardo Bruni Leonardus Aretinus 1370–1444
Giordano Bruno 1548–1600
George Buchanan[2] 1506–82 Scottish Tutured James I, greatest Scottish Neo-Latin poet[2] Poetry
Guillaume Budé Guilielmus Budaeus 1467–1540
Gabriel Bugnot [Wikidata] 1673 (d)
Ghislain Bulteel[3] Gislenus Bultelius 1555–1611
Joannes Burmeister 1576–1638 German
Ambrogio da Calepio Ambrosius Calepinus 1453–1511 Italian
William Camden[2] 1551–1623 Works across many different prose genres Non-fiction
Tommaso Campanella 1568–1639
Thomas Campion[2] 1567–1620
Pietro Andrea Canonieri 1639 (d)
Gerolamo Cardano Hieronymus Cardanus 1501–76
Fulvio Cardulo [Wikidata] 1526–91
Pietro Carmeliano [Wikidata] Petrus Carmelianus 1451–1527 Italian
Isaac Casaubon 1559–1614
Petrus Castellanus [Wikidata] 1582–1632 Dutch
Lapo da Castiglionchio 1316–81
Baldassare Castiglione 1478–1529
Nicolas Caussin 1583–1651
Conrad Celtis 1459–1508
Tommaso Ceva 1648–1737
Thomas Chaloner 1521–65
François Champion de Cicé [Wikidata] 1666–1715
John Cheke 1514–57
Thomas Chaundler[2] 1418–90 Academic
David Chytraeus 1530–1600
Grzegorz Knapski 1564–1638
John Colet[2] 1467–1519 Erasmus' circle
Urceo Codro Antonius Codrus Urceus 1446–1500
Francesco Colonna Franciscus Columna 1433–1527
Benedetto Colucci [Wikidata] 1438-1506
Antonio Schinella Conti 1677–1749
Giovanni Conversini 1343–1408
Janus Cornarius Janus Cornarius 1500–58 German (Saxony)
Tommaso Corréa [Wikidata] 1536–95
Gregorio Correr 1409–64
Paolo Cortesi Paulus Cortesius 1465–1510 Italian
Laurentius Corvinus 1465–1527
Abraham Cowley 1618–67
Richard Crashaw 1613–49
Jean Crespin 1520–72
Lodrisio Crivelli [Wikidata] Leodrisius Cribellus 1412–65 Italian
Luis da Cruz [Wikidata] Ludovicus Crucius 1542–1604 Portuguese Poet
Petrus Cunaeus 1586–1638
Giacomo Curlo [Wikidata] Jacobus Curulus 1423–67
Anne Le Fèvre Dacier 1647–1720
Anton van Dale Antonius van Dale 1638–1708 Dutch
Jan Dantyszek Ioannes Dantiscus 1485–1548
Giovanni Darcio [Wikidata] Johannes Darcaeus 1510–1554
Agostino Dati 1420–78
Carlo Roberto Dati 1619–76
Leonardo Dati 1360–1425
Angelo Decembrio 1415–67
Nicolas Denisot 1515–59
Francesco Diedo [Wikidata] 1435–84
Caspar Dornau [Wikidata] Dornavius 1577–1632
Maarten van Dorp Martinus Dorpius 1485–1525 Dutch
Janus Dousa 1545–1604
Thomas Draxe 1618 (d)
William Drummond 1585–1649
William Drury 1584–1643
Jean Du Bellay 1493–1560
Joachim Du Bellay 1522–1560
András Dugonics [Wikidata] 1740–1818
Jacques Dupuy [Wikidata] Jacobus Puteanus 1591–1656 French
Pierre Dupuy Puteanus 1582–1651
Paolo Emili Paulus Aemilius Veronensis 1460–1529 Italian
Desiderius Erasmus 1466–1536
Anton Wilhelm Ertl 1654–1715
Henri Estienne Henricus Stephanus 1470–1520
Leonhard Euler 1707–83
Georg Fabricius 1516–71
Bartolomeo Facio 1400–57
Vittorino da Feltre 1378–1448
Giovanni Battista Ferrari Johannes Baptista Ferrarius 1502 (d)
Marsilio Ficino 1433–99
Francesco Filelfo 1398–1481
Gian Maria Filelfo [Wikidata] Ioannes Marius Philelphus 1426–80 Italian
Martino Filetico [Wikidata] Martinus Phileticus 1430–90 Italian
Payne Fisher Paganus Piscator 1616–93
James Foulis[2] First major Scottish Neo-Latin poet[2] Poetry
Marcantonio Flaminio 1498–1550
Francesco Florio [Wikidata] 1428–83 Italian
Girolamo Fracastoro 1478–1553
Francesco Franchini Franciscus Franchinus 1500–59
Abraham Fraunce 1558–1633
André des Freux [Wikidata] Andreas Frusius 1510–56 French
Nicodemus Frischlin 1547–90
Tito Livio Frulovisi 1420–50 Italian History
William Gager[2] 1555–1622 English Most notable English dramatist[2] Drama
Luigi Galvani Aloisius Galvanus 1737–98 Italian Physics
Giovanni Garzoni 1419–1505 Italian Various
Johannes Gast [Wikidata] Johannes Gastius 1500–52 Swiss
Niccolò Partenio Giannettasio [Wikidata] Nicolaus Parthenius Giannettasius 1648–1715 Italian
Gian Matteo Giberti Joannes Matthaeus Gibertus 1495–1543
Paolo Giovio Paulus Jovius 1483–1552
Lilio Gregorio Giraldi 1479–1552
Wilhelm Gnapheus Gulielmus Gnapheus 1493–1568 Dutch
Samuel Gott 1614–71
Luis de Granada 1505–88
Thomas Gray 1716–71
Jakob Gretser 1562–1625
Nicholas Grimald, 1519–62
Johann Friedrich Gronovius 1686–1762
Willem de Groot [Wikidata] 1597–1662 Dutch
Hugo Grotius 1583–1645
Battista Guarini 1538–1612 Italian
Guarino da Verona Guarinus Veronensis 1374–1460 Italian
Bernardo Guglielmini Guilielminus 1693–1769
François Guyet 1575–1655
Walter Haddon[2] 1515–1572 Poetry, theology, epitaphs
Joseph Hall 1574–1656
Walter Harris Irish 1686–1761
Gabriel Harvey[2] English c.1552/1553–1631
Jan van Havre Johannes Havraeus 1551–1625
Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens Marius Curillus 1726–1801
Daniel Heinsius 1580–1655
George Herbert 1593–1633
John Herd[2] 1593–1633 Noted for Historia quattuor regum Angliae: heroico carmine conclusa Poetry
Helius Eobanus Hessus Eoban Koch 1488–1540
Ludvig Holberg 1684–1754
Michel de l’Hôpital Michael Hospitalius 1504–73
Lambertus Hortensius 1500–74
Sidron de Hossche Sidronius Hosschius 1596–1653
Pierre-Daniel Huet 1630–1721
Herman Hugo 1588–1629
David Hume 1558–1629
James Hume 1639
Nicolaus Hussovianus 1480–1533 Lithuanian
Ulrich von Hutten 1488–1523
Klemens Janicki Clemens Ianicius 1516–43
Christopher Johnson 1536–97
Samuel Johnson 1709–84 Latin poetry
Arthur Johnston 1587–1641
Johannes Kepler 1571–1630
Johannes Kerckmeister 1450–1500
David Kinloch 1559–1617
Joris van Lanckvelt Lanckvelt Georg Macropedius 1487–1558
Cristoforo Landino 1424–98
Ortensio Lando 1510–58
Lodovico Lazzarelli 1447–1500
François Antoine Le Febvre 1678–1737
Antoine Legrand 1629–99
John Leland[2] 1503–52
Bernadino Leo 1572–85 fl.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729–81
Michael Lilienthal 1686–1750
Carl Linnaeus 1707–78
Lorenzo Lippi 1606–65
Justus Lipsius 1547–1606
Zacharie de Lisieux Zacharias Lexoviensis
Petrus Firmianus 1596–1661
William Lily[2] c. 1468–1522 Erasmus' circle
Thomas Linacre[2] c.1460–1524 Erasmus' circle
John Lloyd 1558–1603
Jakob Locher Philomusus 1471–1528
Peter Lombard 1555–1625
Christophorus Longolius 1488–1522
Antonio Loschi 1368–1441
Lovato Lovati 1241–1309
Eilert Lübben Eilhard Lubinus 1565–1621
John Lynch Gratianus Lucius 1599–1677
Jean Salmon Macrin 1490–1557
Giovanni Pietro Maffei Petrus Maffeius 1533–1603
Antonio Magliabechi 1633–1714
Paracleto Corneto Malvezzi Fuscus Paracletus Cornetanus De Malvetiis 1408–87
Pierre Mambrun 1601–61
Domenico Mancini Dominicus Mancinus 1434– 1494
Giannozzo Manetti 1396–1459
Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuan Johannes Baptista Spagnolo 1448–1516
Paolo Marchesi 1460–70 fl.
Theodorus Marcilius 1548–1617
Clément Marot 1496–1544
Giovanni Marrasio 1400–1452
Michele Marullo 1453–1500
Jacob Masen Masenius; Ioannes Semanus 1606–81
Gulielmo Massieu 1665–1722
Pacifico Massimi 1410–1506
Thomas May 1594–1650
Johann Meder 1495 fl.
Philip Melanchthon 1497–1560
Tommaso Melenchino 1500 fl.
Andrew Melville 1545–1622
Gilles Ménage 1613–92
Johannes Burkhard Mencke 1674–1732
Nicolas Mercier 1657 d.
John Milton 1608–74
Francesco Maria Molza 1489–1544
Michel de Montaigne 1533–92
Claude Hervé de Montaigu 1687–1762
Petrus Montanus 1467–1507
Robert Moor 1568–1640
Olimpia Fulvia Morata 1526–55
Thomas More[2] 1478–1535 Epigrammata (1518) marks the transition to Neo Latin[2] Various
Daniel Georg Morhof 1539–1691
Claude Barthélemy Morisot 1592–1661
Peter du Moulin 1601–84
Francesco Mucanzio 1573–90 fl.
Marc-Antoine Muret Marcus Antonius Muretus 1526–85
Albertino Mussato 1261–1329
Johannes Michael Nagonius 1450–1510
Naldo de Naldi 1432–1513
Petrus Nannius 1500–57
Thomas Naogeorg 1508–63
Neri de' Nerli 1459–1524
Martin Nessel Martinus Nesselius 1607–73
Agostino Nifo 1473–1545
Marius Nizzolius 1498–1576
Roberto Nobili 1577–1656
Heinrich Nolle 1626 d.
Federigo Nomi 1633–1705
Christopher Ocland 1590 d.
François Olivier Franciscus Olivarius 1497–1560
Dermod O'Meara 1614–42 fl.
Johannes Opicius 1492–3 fl.
Martin Opitz 1597–1639
Philip O'Sullivan-Beare 1590–1634
John Owen Ioannes Owen, Joannes Audoenus 1564–1622
Marco Antonio Paganutio
Marcello Palingenio Marcellus Palingenius Stellatus 1500–51
Francesco Pandolfini 1470–1520
Gianantonio de Porcellio Pandoni 1409–1485 Epigrammatist
John Parkhurst[2] 1511/2–1574/5
Paolo Pansa Paulus Pansa 1485–1538
Petrus Papeus 1539 fl.
Nicolas de Peiresc Peirescius 1580–1637
Nicolas Petit 1497–1532
Francesco Petrarca Petrarchus 1304–74
James Philp 1654/5–1720
Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini 1458–64
Willibald Pirckheimer 1470–1530
Ioannes Baptista Pius 1475–1542
Franciscus Plante 1613–90
Bartolemeo Platina 1421–81
Sicco Polenton 1375–1447
Melchior de Polignac 1661–1742
Angelo Poliziano Angelus Politianus 1454–94
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano 1429–1503
Jacobus Pontanus 1542–1626
Johann Ludwig Prasch Johannis Ludovicus Praschius 1637–90
Susanna Prasch 1661–1691
Ubertino Pusculo Ubertino Pusculus 1431–88
Erycius Puteanus 1574–1646
George Puttenham 1529–90
Francis Quarles 1592–1644
Claude Quillet 1602–61
Benvenuto Rambaldi Benvenutus Imolensis, Benvenutus de Rambaldis 1330–88
René Rapin 1621–87
Džono Rastic Junius Restius 1755–1814
Johann Reuchlin 1455–1522
Nicolas Reusner 1545–1602
Beatus Rhenanus 1485–1547
Nicolas Rigault Rigaltius 1577–1654
Francesco Rococciolo 1460–1528
Pierre Ronsard 1524–85
Gian Vittorio Rossi 1577–1647
Adriaen de Roulers Adrianus Roulerius 1597 d.
Adrianus van Royen 1704–79
Jean Roze Ioannes Roze 1679–1719
George Ruggle 1575–1622
Jan Rutgersius 1589–1625
Angelus Sabinus | Angelus Gnaeus Quirinus Sabinus 1460–80 fl.
Sabinus, Georgius 1508–60
Coluccio Salutati 1331–1406
Johannes Pannonicus Sambucus 1531–84
Joannes Sangenesius 1654 fl.
Iacopo Sannazaro 1458–1530
Joannes Sapidus 1490–1561
Maciej Kasimierz Sarbiewski Matthias Casimirus Sarbievius 1595–1640
Pierre-Juste Sautel 1613–62
Joseph Justus Scaliger 1540–1609
Julius Caesar Scaliger 1484–1558
Cornelius Schoen Schoenaeus 1541–1611
Petrus Scholirius 1583–1635
Jacob Schöpper 1554 d.
Hermann Schotten 1503–46
Quintus Sectanus 1660–1726
Joannes Secundus 1511–36
Petrus Lotichius Secundus 1528–60
Ioannes Ginesius Sepulveda 1490–1573
Anne Seymour 1538–88 English
Jane Seymour 1541–61 English
Margaret Seymour 1540 English
Adam Siber 1516–84
Lucius Marineus Siculus 1460–1533
Luisa Sigea 1522–60
Carlo Sigonio Carolus Sigonius 1524–84
Joannes Soter 1518–43 fl.
Etienne Auguste Souciet 1671–1744
Sperone Speroni 1500–88
Francesco Sperulo 1463–1531
Richard Stanihurst 1547–1618
Benedict Stay 1714–1801
Bernardino Stefonio 1560–1620
Giulio Cesare Stella 1564–1624
Caspar Stiblinus 1526–62
John Stockwood 1610 d.
Famiano Strada Famianus 1572–1649
John Stradling 1563–1637
Tito Vespasiano Strozzi 1424–1505
Jean Sturm Ioannes Sturmius 1507–89
Johannes Surius 1617–21 fl.
François Tarillon 1666–1735
Torquato Tasso 1544–95
Francesco Tedaldi 1420–1490
Diogo de Teive 1514–1569
Emanuele Tesauro 1592–1675
Ambrogio Traversari 1386–1439
Gaspare Tribraco Tribrachus 1439–1493 Italian
Gian Giorgio Trissino 1478–1550
Lorenzo Valla Laurentius Valla 1407–57
William Vaughan 1577–1641
Maffeo Vegio 1407–58
Caspar Ursinus Velius 1493–1539
Miguel Venegas 1531–1589
Carolus Verardus 1492 fl.
Marcellinus Verardus 1493 fl.
Pier Vergerio 1370–1444
Polydore Vergil 1470–1555
Michele Verino 1469–87
Ugolino Verino 1438–1516
Marco Girolamo Vida 1485–1566
Alexander of Villedieu 1175–1240
José Antonio de Villerías y Roelas 1695–1728
Giovanni Antonio Viperano 1535–1610
Janus Vitalis 1485–1560
Juan Luis Vives 1493–1540
Gerardus Joannes Vossius 1577–1649
James Ware 1594–1666
Thomas Watson[2] 1556–92 Ovidian or Petrarchan poetry
Elizabeth Jane Weston[2] Elisabetha Ioanna Westonia 1582–1612 English Poetry
Richard Willes 1546–1579
Thomas Wilson 1524–81
Jakob Wimpheling 1450–1528
Basilio Zanchi 1501–58
Jakob Zovitius 1512–1540
Matteo Zuppardo 1400–57

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  • Ford, Philip; Bloemendal, Jan; Fantazzi, Charles, eds. (2014). Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World. Vol. I & II. The Netherlands: Brill.
  • IJsewijn, Jozef; Sacré, Dirk (1990–1998). Companion to Neo-Latin Studies. Vol. I & II. Leuven University Press.
  • Porter, David A. (2014). "Neo-Latin Literature—The British Isles: The Long Sixteenth Century". In Ford, Philip; Bloemendal, Jan; Fantazzi, Charles (eds.). Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World. Vol. I. Brill Reference Online.
  • Moul, Victoria, ed. (2017). A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108820066. OL 29875053M.
  • Knight, Sarah; Tilg, Stefan, eds. (2015). The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190886998. OL 28648475M.

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