page_title: List of Renaissance figures
section_title: Writers
hierarchical_section_title: List of Renaissance figures / Writers
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. Oil on canvas, 820 x 670 mm (32 x 26 3/8"). Musée du Louvre, Paris.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people associated with the Renaissance.
context_section_description: Ludovico Ariosto
  Martin Bauzer
  Luís de Camões
  Baldassare Castiglione
  Miguel de Cervantes
  Geoffrey Chaucer
  John of the Cross
  John Donne
  Alberico Gentili
  Marko Gerbec
  Ben Jonson
  Luis de León
  Christopher Marlowe
  Petrarch
  Christine de Pizan
  Poliziano
  François Rabelais
  Fernando de Rojas
  Lope de Rueda
  Pierre de Ronsard
  William Shakespeare
  Catherine of Siena
  Cicco Simonetta
  Garcilaso de la Vega
  Gil Vicente
caption: Baldassare Castiglione
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