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Florent Chrestien
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Born January 26, 1541 • Orléans • France
Died October 3, 1596 (aged 55) • Vendôme • France
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
Vondel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Joachim Sandrart, 1635
Joost van den Vondel
Dutch writer
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Lucius Livius Andronicus
Roman author
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dutch author
Delille, detail of an engraving by Antoine Cardon after a painting by J.-L. Monnier
Jacques Delille
French writer
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
George Buchanan, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist after a portrait by Arnold Bronkhorst, 1581; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Buchanan
Scottish writer and educator
Maximus Planudes
Byzantine scholar and theologian
Richmond Lattimore
American poet and translator
Rex Warner
British writer
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
André Gide, oil painting by P.A. Laurens, 1924; in the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris.
André Gide
French writer
Clément Marot, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Bibliothèque Protestante, Paris.
Clément Marot
French poet
Yves Bonnefoy
French author
Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris
Edgar Quinet
French historian and poet
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle
French poet
Julius Caesar Scaliger
French scholar

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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