Works published Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language. The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva España, a collection of Aztec poetry (including pre-Columbian works). Births and deaths England John Skelton (c. 1460–1529) George Gascoigne (1535–1578) Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) William Shakespeare (1564–1616) John Donne (c. 1572–1631) Ben Jonson (c. 1572–1637) Robert Herrick (1591–1674) George Herbert (1593–1633) Young William (c. 1395-1433) France Jean Molinet (1435–1507), French poet, chronicler, and composer Olivier de la Marche (1426–1501), French poet and author Clément Marot (1496–1544) Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) Bonaventure des Périers (c. 1501 – 1544) Louise Labe (1526–1566) Maurice Sceve (1511–1564) Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) Joachim du Bellay (1525–1560) Jean de Sponde (1557–1595) Jean de la Ceppede (1550–1622) Agrippa d'Aubigne (1550–1630) François de Malherbe (1555–1628) French-language Swiss Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552–1630) Simon Goulart (1583–1628) Germany Erasmus Alberus (c. 1500–1553) Johann Valentin Andreae (1586–1654) Johann Beltz (1529–1584) Sebastian Brant (1457 or 1458 – 1521) Conrad Celtis (1459–1508) Nikolaus Decius (1485 – after 1546) Johann Fischart (1546 or 1547 – 1591) Hans Folz (1435/1440 – 1513) Sebastian Franck (1499 – 1542 or 1543) Konrad Gesner (1516–1565) Johann Heermann (1585–1647) Nikolaus Herman (c. 1500–1561) Mathias Holtzwart (c. 1540 – after 1589) Anna Ovena Hoyer (1584–1655) Ulrich von Hutten(1488–1523) Georg List (1532–1596) Ambrosius Lobwasser (1515–1585) Martin Luther (1483–1546) Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) Thomas Müntzer (c. 1489–1525) Philipp Nicolai (1556–1608) Martin Opitz (1597–1639) Jakob Regnart (between 1540 and 1545 – 1599) Adam Reusner (1471/1496 – 1563/1582) Bartholomäus Ringwaldt (1532 – c. 1599) Hans Sachs (1494–1576) Paulus Schede Melissus (1539–1602) Johann Hermann Schein (1586–1630) Johannes Secundus (1511–1536) Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld (1591–1635) Paul Speratus (1484–1581) Josua Stegmann (1588–1632) Georg Rodolf Weckherlin (1584–1653) Michael Weiße (1588–1634) Diederich von dem Werder (1584–1657) Christoff Wirsung (c. 1500–1571) Julius Wilhelm Zincgref (1591–1635) Georgius Agricola (1554–1630) German-language Swiss Nicholas Manuel (1484–1530) Italy Benedetto Cariteo (1450–1514) Teofilo Folengo (1491 – 1574) Lodovico Ariosto (1474–1533), also a Latin poet Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), Cardinal and influential critic Vittoria Colonna (1492–1547) Gaspara Stampa (c. 1523–1554), woman poet Antonio Sebastiano Minturno (1559–1565), writer and poet Japan Arakida Moritake 荒木田守武 (1473–1549), the son of Negi Morihide, and a Shinto priest; said to have excelled in waka, renga, and in particular haikai Hosokawa Fujitaka 細川藤孝, also known as Hosokawa Yūsai 細川幽斎 (1534–1610), a Sengoku period feudal warlord who was a prominent retainer of the last Ashikaga shōguns;