These are a few of the renaissance writers list among the huge list.
Renaissance
Writers
1) William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was the greatest writer of the era born in
1564. He was an actor and a poet but is best known for his plays. He also wrote
tragedies and comedies, and Shakespeare became one of the most well-known
playwrights in England. Some plays he is well known for are Hamlet,
Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, and Henry
V.
2) Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel was a
Spanish influential writer during the Renaissance. He wrote numerous plays and
works of fiction, including Novelas ejemplares in 1613.
Cervantes was not widely known, however, until the publication of his most
influential piece, Don Quixote de la Mancha. This novel was
published in 1604 and made Cervantes extremely popular in Spain, and this novel
tells of a country gentleman who searches for adventure in life.
3) Niccolo Machiavelli
Machiavelli was a diplomat in Florence who tried to answer how
could a ruler guarantee that he would stay in power by writing The
Prince in 1513. Machiavelli claimed that people were greedy and
self-centered. He argued that rulers should not be good, and that rulers should
do whatever is necessary to keep power and protect their city, including
killing and lying. Today, when someone is called a Machiavellian, it means that
they are acting tricky and not thinking about the good.
4) Francesco Petrarch
Francesco Petrarch was a poet and scholar that lived in the 1300s. He was known for his Italian poetry and wrote many famous poems, such as the Canzoniere and the Triofi. He was also a vey enthusiastic Latin scholar and wrote most of his poems in this language. He died in 1374, but he would influence later writers such as Boccaccio and Shakespeare.
5) Dante Alighieri
Dante
Alighieri, often simply referred to as Dante, was a famous Italian poet during
the Renaissance. The Divine Comedy is the most famous of his
works, and is often considered the greatest literary work in the Italian
language. Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are often considered the best Italian
writers in history. He often wrote his poems in the Italian vernacular rather
than Latin, a choice that would later influence literary development all over
Europe.
6) Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey
Chaucer, usually referred to as simply Chaucer, is a famous Italian writer that
wrote in the English vernacular. His is widely recognized for his book The
Canterbury Tales, but he also many other books, including The Book
of the Duchess and The House of Fame. He is an important
figure in developing the English vernacular we use today because he English he
used in his writing is the ancestor of today’s everyday English language.
7) Benjamin Jonson
Benjamin Jonson (Ben
Johnson) born on 11 June 1572 – died 16 August 1637,
was an English playwright and poet, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact
upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularized the comedy of humors.
He is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour[3] (1598), Volpone, or
The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614) and for
his lyric and epigrammatic poetry.
"He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist,
after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I.
Jonson was a classically
educated, well-read and cultured man of the English Renaissance with an appetite for
controversy (personal and political, artistic and intellectual) whose cultural
influence was of unparalleled breadth upon the playwrights and the poets of
the Jacobean era (1603–1625) and of the Caroline era (1625–1642).
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