de Ledesma (1562–1623) Lope de Vega (1562–1635), playwright and poet Fernando de Herrera (1534–1597) Luis Barahona de Soto (1548–1595) Pedro de Espinosa (1578–1650) Francisco de Rioja (1583–1659) Francisco de Medrano (1570–1607) Alonso de Ercilla (1533 – c. 1596) Other Jeong Cheol (1536–1593), Korean poet Hwang Jin-i (1522–1565), Korean poet Song Deokbong (1521-1578), Korean poet Judah Leone Modena, also known as: Leon Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena (1571–1648), a rabbi, orator, scholar, teacher and poet Israel ben Moses Najara (c. 1555 – c. 1625), Hebrew poet in Palestine Ali-Shir Nava'i, also known as "Nizām al-Din"; pen name "Navā'ī" , meaning "the weeper" (1441 – 1501), Central Asian politician, mystic, linguist, painter, and poet of Chaghatai origin who was born and lived in Herat, in modern-day Afghanistan; his Chagatai language (Middle Turkic) poetry has led many throughout the Turkic-speaking world to consider him the founder of early Turkic literature, and the Uzbeks claim him as their national poet See also 16th century in literature Castalian Band Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature Elizabethan literature English Madrigal School French Renaissance literature Renaissance literature Spanish Renaissance literature University Wits Decades and years Notes 01 Poetry by century