# List of Neo-Latin authors

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.

## Authors of Neo-Latin works

Sortable list of Neo-Latin authors :
| Name | Latin name | Dates | Nationality | Notes | Genre |
| Pedro Pablo de Acevedo [Wikidata] | Petrus Paulus Acevedo | 1522–73 | Spanish | | |
| Joseph Addison | Iosephus Addison | 1672–1719 | English | | Drama, poetry |
| William Alabaster | Guillelmus Alabaster | 1444–84 | English | His Roxana (c. 1595) rated as next after Milton by Johnson | Drama |
| Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa | Cornelius Agrippa ab Nettesheym | 1486–1535 | German | De Occulta Philosophia libri III | Occult |
| Roelof Huesman | Rodolphus Agricola | 1444–84 | Dutch | De inventione dialectica (1479) | Logic |
| Leon Battista Alberti | Leo Baptista Albertus | 1404–72 | Italian | De pictura, De re aedificatoria, Ludi rerum mathematicarum, De componendis cifris; Momus | Technical works, satire |
| Andrea Alciato | Andreas Alciatus | 1492–1550 | Italian | Viri Clarissimi D. Andreae Alciati Iurisconsultiss. Mediol. Ad D. Chonradum Peutingerum Augustanum, Iurisconsultum Emblematum Liber | Law |
| Marcantonio Aldegati [Wikidata] | Marcus Antonius de Aldegatis | 1480–90 | | | |
| Ulisse Aldrovandi | Ulysses Aldrovandus | 1522–1605 | Italian | Ornithologiae, Monstrorum Historia | Natural history |
| Francisco Xavier Alegre | Franciscus Xaverius Alegrius | 1729–98 | Italian | Nysus | Classics; theology, history, mathematics |
| 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 | | |
| Annius of Viterbo | Annius | 1432–1502 | 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 | | |
| Ermolao Barbaro | Hermolaus Barbarus | 1453/1454–1492 | Italian | Castigationes Plinianae | |
| Francesco Barbaro | | 1390–1454 | Italian | De re uxori | |
| Maffeo Barberini | | 1568–1644 | Italian | | |
| John Barclay | | 1582–1621 | Scottish | | |
| Kaspar van Baerle | Caspar Barlaeus | 1584–1648 | Dutch | | |
| Adriaan van Baarland | Hadrianus Barlandus | 1486–1538 | Dutch | | |
| Kaspar von Barth | | 1587–1658 | German | Adversariorum commentatiorum libri lx | |
| Thomas Bartholin | | 1616–80 | | | |
| Gasparino Barzizza | | 1360–1431 | | | |
| Basinio Basini | | 1425–57 | Italian | | |
| François Baudouin | | 1520–73 | | | |
| Dominique Baudier | Dominicus Baudius | 1561–1613 | | | |
| | Bernardus Bauhusius [Wikidata] | 1575–1614 | Dutch | | |
| Heinrich Bebel | | 1472–1518 | | | |
| Antonio Beccadelli | | 1394–1471 | Italian | Hermaphroditus; De dictis et factis Alphonsi regis; founded the Academia Neapolitana | |
| Daniel Beckher [Wikidata] | | 1594–1655 | German | | |
| Pietro Bembo | Bembus | 1470–1547 | Italy | | Poetry |
| 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 | | De Roma instaurata; De Roma triumphante | History |
| Thomas Bisse [Wikidata] | | 1675–1731 | | | |
| Johannes Bissel [Wikidata] | Ioannes Bisselius | 1601–82 | German | | |
| Pierre de Blarru [Wikidata] | | 1437–1510 | French | | |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | | 1313–75 | | Genealogie deorum gentilium | Mythography |
| Jean Bodin | | 1530–96 | | | |
| Hector Boethius | | 1465–1536 | | | |
| Etienne de La Boétie | | 1530–1563 | | Poemata, 1571 | Poetry |
| 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 | Italian | Facetiae; De avaritia | Hunour, morality |
| Aurelio Lippo Brandolini | | 1454–97 | | | |
| Sebastian Brant | | 1457–1521 | | | |
| | 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 | | 1506–82 | Scottish | Tutored James I, greatest Scottish Neo-Latin poet | Poetry |
| Guillaume Budé | Guilielmus Budaeus | 1467–1540 | | De asse (1515); De philologia, (1532); De transitu Hellenismi ad Christianismum (1535). | Classical studies and philology |
| Gabriel Bugnot [Wikidata] | | 1673 (d) | | | |
| Ghislain Bulteel | Gislenus Bultelius | 1555–1611 | | | |
| Pieter Burman | Petrus Burmannus | 1668–1741 | Dutch | | |
| Joannes Burmeister | | 1576–1638 | German | | |
| Ambrogio da Calepino | Ambrosius Calepinus | 1453–1511 | Italian | | |
| William Camden | | 1551–1623 | | Works across many different prose genres | Non-fiction |
| Tommaso Campanella | | 1568–1639 | | | |
| Thomas Campion | | 1567–1620 | | | |
| Pietro Andrea Canonieri | | 1639 (d) | | | |
| Willem Canter | Gulielmus Canterus | 1542–1575 | Dutch | | |
| 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 | Italy | | Poetry |
| 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 | | 1418–90 | English | | Academic |
| David Chytraeus | | 1530–1600 | | | |
| Grzegorz Knapski | | 1564–1638 | | | |
| | Carolus Clusius | 1526–1609 | Dutch | | Botany |
| John Colet | | 1467–1519 | English | Erasmus' circle | |
| Urceo Codro | Antonius Codrus Urceus | 1446–1500 | | | |
| Francesco Colonna | Franciscus Columna | 1433–1527 | | | |
| Benedetto Colucci [Wikidata] | | 1438-1506 | | | |
| Natalis Comes | | 1520–1582 | Italian | Mythologiae (1567) | Mythology |
| Antonio Schinella Conti | | 1677–1749 | | | |
| Giovanni Conversini | | 1343–1408 | | | |
| | Janus Cornarius | 1500–58 | German (Saxony) | | |
| Mario Corrado [Wikidata] | | 1508–1575 | Italian | De lingua Latina (1569), De copia Latini sermonis (1582) | Latin composition |
| Tommaso Corréa [Wikidata] | | 1536–95 | | | |
| Gregorio Correr | | 1409–64 | | | |
| Paolo Cortesi | Paulus Cortesius | 1465–1510 | Italian | | |
| | Laurentius Corvinus | 1465–1527 | | | |
| Giovanni Cotta [Wikidata] | Iohannes Cotta | 1480–1510 | Italy | | Poetry |
| 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 | | | |
| Etienne Dolet | | 1577–1632 | | Burned at the stake for pro-Reformation views | Ciceronian stylist |
| Caspar Dornau [Wikidata] | Dornavius | d. 1546 | | | |
| Maarten van Dorp | Martinus Dorpius | 1485–1525 | Dutch | | Drama |
| | 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 | | |
| Gerrit Gerritszoon | Desiderius Erasmus | 1466–1536 | Dutch | | |
| 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 | | Sphortias; De morali disciplina | Poetry, philosophy |
| Gian Maria Filelfo [Wikidata] | Ioannes Marius Philelphus | 1426–80 | Italian | | |
| Martino Filetico [Wikidata] | Martinus Phileticus | 1430–90 | Italian | | |
| Payne Fisher | Paganus Piscator | 1616–93 | | | |
| Teofilo Folengo | | 1491–1544 | | Liber macaronices 1517, 1521 | Comic / macaronic poetry |
| James Foulis | | | Scottish | First major Scottish Neo-Latin poet | Poetry |
| Marcantonio Flaminio | | 1498–1550 | Italian | | Poetry |
| Francesco Florio [Wikidata] | | 1428–83 | Italian | | |
| Girolamo Fracastoro | | 1478–1553 | Italian | Widely imitated | Poetry |
| Francesco Franchini | Franciscus Franchinus | 1500–59 | | | |
| Abraham Fraunce | | 1558–1633 | | | |
| André des Freux [Wikidata] | Andreas Frusius | 1510–56 | French | | |
| Nicodemus Frischlin | | 1547–90 | | | |
| Gemma Frisius | | 1508–1555 | Dutch | | Geography |
| Tito Livio Frulovisi | | 1420–50 | Italian | | History |
| William Gager | | 1555–1622 | English | Most notable English dramatist | Drama |
| Luigi Galvani | Aloisius Galvanus | 1737–98 | Italian | | Physics |
| Giovanni Garzoni | | 1419–1505 | Italian | | Various |
| Johannes Gast [Wikidata] | Johannes Gastius | 1500–52 | Swiss | | |
| Pierre Gassendi | | 1592–1655 | French | | Astronomer, mathematician |
| Niccolò Partenio Giannettasio [Wikidata] | Nicolaus Parthenius Giannettasius | 1648–1715 | Italian | | |
| Gian Matteo Giberti | Joannes Matthaeus Gibertus | 1495–1543 | | | |
| Paolo Giovio | Paulus Jovius | 1483–1552 | Italian | Historiarum sui temporis libri XLV (1552) (A History of our times; De viris et foeminis aetate nostra florentibus (Notable Men and Women of our Time) | History |
| 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 | | 1611–1671 | | | |
| Willem de Groot [Wikidata] | | 1597–1662 | Dutch | | |
| | Hugo Grotius | 1583–1645 | Dutch | | Diplomatic relations; poetry |
| | Nicolaus Grudius [Wikidata] | 1504–1570 | Dutch | | |
| Battista Guarini | | 1538–1612 | Italian | | |
| Guarino da Verona | Guarinus Veronensis | 1374–1460 | Italian | | |
| Bernardo Guglielmini | Guilielminus | 1693–1769 | | | |
| François Guyet | | 1575–1655 | | | |
| Walter Haddon | | 1515–1572 | | | Poetry, theology, epitaphs |
| Joseph Hall | | 1574–1656 | | | |
| Walter Harris | | 1686–1761 | Irish | | |
| Gabriel Harvey | | c. 1552 – c. 1631 | English | | |
| Jan van Havre | Johannes Havraeus | 1551–1625 | | | |
| Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens [Wikidata] | Marius Curillus | 1726–1801 | | | |
| | Daniel Heinsius | 1580–1655 | Dutch | | Poetry |
| Nicholaas Heinsius | Nicholaus Heinsius | ? | Dutch | | Poetry |
| George Herbert | | 1593–1633 | | | |
| John Herd [Wikidata] | | 1511–1584 | | Noted for Historia quattuor regum Angliae: heroico carmine conclusa | Poetry |
| Eoban Koch | Helius Eobanus Hessus | 1488–1540 | German | | |
| Ludvig Holberg | Ludovicus Holbergius | 1684–1754 | Danish / Norwegian | | Novels |
| Michel del' Hôpital | Michael Hospitalius | 1504–73 | | | |
| Lambertus Hortensius [Wikidata] | | 1500–74 | | | |
| Sidron de Hossche | Sidronius Hosschius | 1596–1653 | | | |
| Pierre-Daniel Huet | | 1630–1721 | | | |
| Herman Hugo | | 1588–1629 | | | |
| David Hume | | 1558–1629 | | | |
| James Hume (mathematician) | | 1639 | | | |
| | Nicolaus Hussovianus | 1480–1533 | Lithuanian | | |
| Ulrich von Hutten | | 1488–1523 | | | |
| Christiaan Huygens | Christianus Huygens | 1629–1695 | Dutch | | Mathematics |
| Luigi Illuminati [Wikidata] | Aloisius Illuminati | 1881-1962 | Italian | Dux populi; Dux militum; Dux Italiae | Poetry, Fascist Poetry |
| Klemens Janicki | Clemens Ianicius | 1516–43 | | | |
| Christopher Johnson | | 1536–97 | | | |
| Samuel Johnson | | 1709–84 | | | Poetry |
| Arthur Johnson | | 1587–1641 | | | |
| Johannes Kepler | | 1571–1630 | | | |
| Johannes Kerckmeister [Wikidata] | | 1450–1500 | | | |
| David Kinloch | | 1559–1617 | | | |
| Joris van Lanckvelt | Georgius Macropedius | 1487–1558 | Dutch | | Drama |
| Geert De Kremer | Gerardus Mercator | 1512–1594 | Dutch | | Geography |
| Cristoforo Landino | | 1424–98 | | Xandra,Disputationes Camaldulenses | Poetry, theology |
| Ortensio Lando | | 1510–58 | | | |
| Lodovico Lazzarelli | | 1447–1500 | | | |
| François Antoine Le Febvre | | 1678–1737 | | | |
| Antoine Legrand | | 1629–99 | | | |
| John Leland (antiquary) | | 1503–52 | | | |
| Bernadino Leo | | 1572–85 fl. | | | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | | 1729–81 | | | |
| | Leonardus Lessius | 1554–1623 | Dutch | | Geography |
| Michael Lilienthal | | 1686–1750 | | | |
| Carl Linnaeus | | 1707–78 | | | |
| Lorenzo Lippi | | 1606–65 | | | |
| | Justus Lipsius | 1547–1606 | | | |
| Zacharie de Lisieux [Wikidata] | Petrus Firmianus, Zacharias Lexoviensis | | | | |
| William Lily | | c. 1468 – c. 1522 | | Erasmus' circle | |
| Thomas Linacre | | c. 1460 – c. 1524 | | Erasmus' circle | |
| John Lloyd | | 1558–1603 | | | |
| Jakob Locher [Wikidata] | Iacobus Locher; Philomusus | 1471–1528 | | | |
| Peter Lombard | | 1555–1625 | | | |
| Christophe de Longueil | Christophorus Longolius | 1488–1522 | | | |
| Antonio Loschi [Wikidata] | | 1368–1441 | | | |
| Antonio Lovati | | 1241–1309 | | | |
| Eilert Lübben [Wikidata] | 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 [Wikidata] | Fuscus Paracletus Cornetanus De Malvetiis | 1408–87 | | | |
| Pierre Mambrun [Wikidata] | Petrus Mambrunus | 1601–61 | | | |
| Domenico Mancini | Dominicus Mancinus | 1434– 1494 | | | |
| Giannozzo Manetti | | 1396–1459 | | | |
| Baptista Mantuanus Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuan | Baptista Mantuanus | 1448–1516 | | | |
| Paolo Marchesi | | 1460–70 fl. | | | |
| Théodore Marcile [Wikidata] | Theodorus Marcilius | 1548–1617 | | | |
| Giovanni Mazza [Wikidata] | Joannes Mazza | 1877–1943 | Italian | Italia renata (1930) | Poetry, Fascist Poetry |
| Clément Marot | | 1496–1544 | | | |
| Giovanni Marrasio [Wikidata] | | 1400–1452 | | | |
| Adriaan Nicolai | Hadrianus Marius [Wikidata] | 1509–1568 | Dutch | | Poetry |
| Michele Marullo | Michael Tarchaniota Marullus | 1453–1500 | | | |
| Jacob Masen | Masenius; Ioannes Semanus | 1606–81 | | | |
| Guillaume Massieu | | 1665–1722 | | | |
| Pacifico Massimi | Pacificus Maximus [Wikidata] | 1410–1506 | | | |
| Thomas May | | 1594–1650 | | | |
| Johann Meder [Wikidata] | Johannes Meder | 1495 fl. | | | Sermons |
| Philip Melanchthon | | 1497–1560 | | | |
| Tommaso Melenchino | | 1500 fl. | | | |
| Andrew Melville | | 1545–1622 | | | |
| Gilles Ménage | | 1613–92 | | | |
| Johann Burkhard | Johannes Burchardus Menckenius [Wikidata] | 1674–1732 | | | |
| Nicolas Mercier | | 1657 d. | | | |
| Domenico Migliazza | Dominicus Migliazza [Wikidata] | 1876–1959 | Italian | Roma (1931) | Poetry, Fascist Poetry |
| John Milton | Joannes Milton | 1608–74 | English | Defensio pro Populo Anglicano | Poetry, polemics |
| Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | Johannes Picus de Mirandula | 1463–1494 | Italian | Conclusiones philosophicae, cabalisticae et theologicae; De dignitate hominis | Philosophy |
| Francesco Maria Molza | | 1489–1544 | | | |
| Michel de Montaigne | | 1533–92 | | | |
| Claude Hervé de Montaigu | | 1687–1762 | | | |
| Peter van den Bergh | Petrus Montanus [Wikidata] | 1467–1507 | Dutch | De Poetis; De Medicis; De Principibus; De Vita Beata | Poetry, satire |
| Robert Moor | | 1568–1640 | | | |
| Olimpia Fulvia Morata | | 1526–55 | | | |
| Thomas More | | 1478–1535 | | Epigrammata (1518) marks the transition to Neo Latin | Various |
| Daniel Georg Morhof | | 1539–1691 | | | |
| Claude Barthélemy Morisot | Claudius Bartolomaeus Morisotus [Wikidata] | 1592–1661 | French | | |
| Domenico Morosini | | 1417–1509 | Italian | De bene instituta re publica | Government |
| Peter du Moulin | | 1601–84 | English-French | Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus paricidas Anglicanos | Politics |
| Francesco Mucanzio | Franciscus Mucantius [Wikidata] | 1573–90 fl. | | | Diarist |
| Marc-Antoine Muret | Marcus Antonius Muretus | 1526–85 | | | |
| Albertino Mussato | | 1261–1329 | | | |
| Johannes Michael Nagonius | Johannes Michael Nagonius [Wikidata] | 1450–1510 | | | |
| Naldo Naldi | Naldus Naldius [Wikidata] | 1432–1513 | Italian | | |
| Petrus Nannius | | 1500–57 | Dutch | | |
| Thomas Naogeorg | | 1508–63 | | | |
| Giovanni Napoleone | Ioannes Napoleone [Wikidata] | c. 1920 – c. 1940 | Italian | Carmen lustrale (1928) | Poetry, Fascist Poetry |
| 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 | | | |
| Abraham Ortelius | | 1527–1598 | Dutch | | Economics |
| Philip O'Sullivan-Beare | | 1590–1634 | | | |
| John Owen | Ioannes Owen, Joannes Audoenus | 1564–1622 | | | |
| Marco Antonio Paganutio | | | | | |
| Marcello Palingenio | Marcellus Palingenius Stellatus | 1500–51 | Italian | Zodiacus Vitae | Zodiac; poetry |
| Francesco Pandolfini | | 1470–1520 | | | |
| Gianantonio de Porcellio Pandoni | | 1409–1485 | | | Epigrammatist |
| John Parkhurst | | 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 | Italian | Historia de duobus amantibus an erotic novel; Commentariorum libri XIII. A Pope. | Novels, autobiograhy |
| Willibald Pirckheimer | | 1470–1530 | | | |
| | Ioannes Baptista Pius | 1475–1542 | | | |
| Franciscus Plante | | 1613–90 | | | |
| Bartolemeo Platina | | 1421–81 | | Arrested for pagan tendencies. Later at Vatican library. Historia de viris pontificum Romanorum and De honesta voluptate et valetudine | Food and health |
| Sicco Polenton | | 1375–1447 | | | |
| Melchior de Polignac | | 1661–1742 | | | |
| Angelo Poliziano | Angelus Politianus | 1454–94 | | Silvae | |
| Giovanni Gioviano Pontano | | 1429–1503 | | De amore coniugali; Baiae; Neniae; Eridanus speech and morals De sermone; De fortitudine | Light poetry |
| | Jacobus Pontanus [Wikidata] | 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 Robortello | | 1577–1654 | Italian | In librum Aristotelis de arte poetica explanationes (1548) | Art of poetry |
| 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 | | | |
| David Ruhnkenius | | 1723–1798 | Dutch | | |
| Jan Rutgersius | | 1589–1625 | | | |
| | Sabinus; Angelus Gnaeus Quirinus Sabinus | 1460–80 fl. | | | |
| | Georgius Sabinus, | 1508–60 | | | |
| | Coluccio Salutati | 1331–1406 | | De laboribus Herculis; De nobilitate legum et medicine; De seculo et religione;De fato et fortuna; De tyranno; Lucretia | |
| | 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 | French | Opus de emendatione temporum (1583) | Chronology |
| 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 | Janus Secundus | 1511–36 | | | Poetry |
| Petrus Lotichius Secundus | | 1528–60 | | | |
| Ioannes Ginesius Sepulveda | | 1490–1573 | | | |
| Anne Seymour | | 1538–88 | English | | |
| Jane Seymour | | 1541–61 | English | | |
| Margaret Seymour | | 1540 | English | | |
| | Cornelius Schonaeus | 1540–1611 | Dutch | | Drama |
| Adam Siber | | 1516–84 | | | |
| Lucius Marineus Siculus | | 1460–1533 | | | |
| Luisa Sigea | | 1522–60 | | | |
| Carlo Sigonio | Carolus Sigonius | 1524–84 | | | |
| Joanne 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 | | | |
| Ercole Strozzi | | 1473–1508 | Italian | | Poetry |
| Tito Vespasiano Strozzi | | 1424–1505 | Italian | | |
| 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 | | | |
| Jacques Auguste de Thou | | 1553–1617 | French | Historiarum sui temporis … libri (1604) | History |
| Ambrogio Traversari | | 1386–1439 | | | |
| Gaspare Trimbocchi | Tribrachus | 1439–1493 | Italian | | |
| Gian Giorgio Trissino | | 1478–1550 | | | |
| Piero Valeriano | | 1477–1558 | Italian | Hieroglyphica (1556); speculation on their meaning | History |
| Lorenzo Valla | Laurentius Valla | 1407–57 | | Elegantiae; Repastinatio dialecticae et philosophiae;De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione | Philosophy, theology, Latin style |
| William Vaughan | | 1577–1641 | | | |
| Maffeo Vegio | | 1407–58 | | Astyanax; Vellus aureum; Antonias; De rebus antiquis memorabilibus S. Petri Romae | Epics, history |
| | 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 | | | |
| | Nicolaus Vernulaeus | 1583–1649 | Dutch | | Drama |
| | Andreas Vesalius | 1514–1564 | Dutch | | Medicine |
| Marco Girolamo Vida | | 1485–1566 | Italian | De bombyce (On the Silkworm) and De ludo scaccorum (On the Game of Chess); Christias, a life of Christ | Reference / textbooks |
| 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 | Dutch | Exercitatio linguae Latinae | Colloquia |
| | Gerardus Joannes Vossius | 1577–1649 | | | |
| Bonaventura Vulcanius | | 1538–1514 | | | |
| James Ware | | 1594–1666 | | | |
| Thomas Watson | | 1556–92 | | | Ovidian or Petrarchan poetry |
| Elizabeth Jane Weston | Elisabetha Ioanna Westonia | 1582–1612 | English | | Poetry |
| Richard Willes | Ricardus Willeius [Wikidata] | 1546–1579 | | | |
| Thomas Wilson | | 1524–81 | | | |
| Jakob Wimpheling | | 1450–1528 | | | |
| Kornelis Wouters | Cornelius Valerius [Wikidata] | 1512–1578 | Dutch | | |
| Daniel Wyttenbach [Wikidata] | | 1746–1820 | | | |
| Basilio Zanchi | | 1501–58 | | | |
| Jakob Zovitius [Wikidata] | Jacobus Zovitius | 1512–1540 | | | |
| Matteo Zuppardo [Wikidata] | Matthaeus Zuppardus | 1400–57 | | | |