List of Neo-Latin authors

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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.

Table

Sortable list of Neo-Latin authors

Name	Latin name	Dates	Nationality	Notes	Genre
Pedro Pablo de Acevedo		1522–73	Spanish
Joseph Addison	Iosephus Addison	1672–1719	English
William Alabaster	Rodolphus Agricola	1444–84	English	His Roxana (c. 1595) rated as next after Milton by Johnson	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		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	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		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	Bernardus Bauhusius	1575–1614	Dutch
Heinrich Bebel		1472–1518
Daniel Beckher		1594–1655	German
Pietro Bembo	Bembus	1470–1547
Francesco Benci	Franciscus Bencius	1542–94	Italian
Jan Benningh	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		1675–1731
Johannes Bissel	Ioannes Bisselius	1601–82	German
Pierre de Blarru		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	Johannes Franciscus Bordinus	1536–1609	Italian
Nicolas Bourbon		1503–1550
Mark Alexander Boyd	Marcus Alexander Bodius	1562–1601
Alessandro Braccesi		1445–1503
Jacopo Bracciolini		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		1506–82	Scottish	Tutured James I, greatest Scottish Neo-Latin poet	Poetry
Guillaume Budé	Guilielmus Budaeus	1467–1540
Gabriel Bugnot		1673 (d)
Ghislain Bulteel	Gislenus Bultelius	1555–1611
Joannes Burmeister		1576–1638	German
Ambrogio da Calepio	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)
Gerolamo Cardano	Hieronymus Cardanus	1501–76
Fulvio Cardulo		1526–91
Pietro Carmeliano	Petrus Carmelianus	1451–1527	Italian
Isaac Casaubon		1559–1614
Petrus Castellanus		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		1666–1715
John Cheke		1514–57
Thomas Chaundler		1418–90			Academic
David Chytraeus		1530–1600
Grzegorz Knapski		1564–1638
John Colet		1467–1519		Erasmus' circle
Urceo Codro	Antonius Codrus Urceus	1446–1500
Francesco Colonna	Franciscus Columna	1433–1527
Benedetto Colucci		1438-1506
Antonio Schinella Conti		1677–1749
Giovanni Conversini		1343–1408
Janus Cornarius	Janus Cornarius	1500–58	German (Saxony)
Tommaso Corréa		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	Leodrisius Cribellus	1412–65	Italian
Luis da Cruz	Ludovicus Crucius	1542–1604	Portuguese		Poet
Petrus Cunaeus		1586–1638
Giacomo Curlo	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	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		1435–84
Caspar Dornau	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		1740–1818
Jacques Dupuy	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	Ioannes Marius Philelphus	1426–80	Italian
Martino Filetico	Martinus Phileticus	1430–90	Italian
Payne Fisher	Paganus Piscator	1616–93
James Foulis				First major Scottish Neo-Latin poet	Poetry
Marcantonio Flaminio		1498–1550
Francesco Florio		1428–83	Italian
Girolamo Fracastoro		1478–1553
Francesco Franchini	Franciscus Franchinus	1500–59
Abraham Fraunce		1558–1633
André des Freux	Andreas Frusius	1510–56	French
Nicodemus Frischlin		1547–90
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	Johannes Gastius	1500–52	Swiss
Niccolò Partenio Giannettasio	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		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		1515–1572			Poetry, theology, epitaphs
Joseph Hall		1574–1656
Walter Harris	Irish	1686–1761
Gabriel Harvey	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		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		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		c. 1468–1522		Erasmus' circle
Thomas Linacre		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		1478–1535		Epigrammata (1518) marks the transition to Neo Latin	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		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		1556–92			Ovidian or Petrarchan poetry
Elizabeth Jane Weston	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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