Francesco Petrarca was a pioneering Italian scholar, famed as the Renaissances first poet laureate and the father of Humanism.
Friedrich Gottlob Keller was a Swiss playwright and poet, celebrated for his realist works that championed the ideals of democracy and human dignity.
Ben Jonson was an influential English playwright, poet, and literary critic, renowned for his contributions to the development of the English language and drama in the 17th century.