Nicholas Machiavelly

Niccolo Machiavelli, was a Florentine Renaissance-era philosopher, government/public

official, and author. He is most known for his philosophies on various subjects, and his
literary works, including: The Prince, Discourses on Livy, and The Art of
War.Machiavelli's ideas and works influenced not only the people of his time but also
those of modern times. He is significant to history because he is considered by many to
be the "father of modern political theory," as his works were incredibly influential to the
political theorists who followed in the hundreds of years after his life.

Machiavelli: Books
Machiavelli wrote books, poems, plays, commentaries, and more on a variety of topics.
His major and most well-known works are The Prince, Discourses on Livy, and The Art
of War. Many of his most famous works were not even published nor popularized until
after his death.

The Prince The book is a political treatise work of non-fiction and features
Machiavelli's ideas and beliefs about government and leadership. This book has since
become an incredibly popular political philosophical read, still relevant in modern
times.
Obras de Nicolás Maquiavelo

 Discurso sobre la corte de Pisa, 1499

 Del modo di trattare i popoli della Valdichiana ribellati, 1502
 Del modo tenuto dal duca Valentino nell' ammazzare Vitellozzo Vitelli,
Oliverotto da Fermo, etc., 1502
 Discorso sopra la provisione del danaro, 1502
 Decennale primo (poema), 1506
 Retrato de la corte de Alemania, 1508-1512
 Decennale secondo, 1509
 Retrato de la corte de Francia, 1510
 Discursos sobre la primera década de Tito Livio, 3 volúmenes, 1512-1517
 El príncipe, 1513
 Andria, comedia, 1517
 La mandrágora, comedia en prosa de cinco actos, con prólogo en verso,
1518
 Della lingua (diálogo), 1514
 Clizia, comedia en prosa, 1525
 Belfagor arcidiavolo (novela), 1515
 Asino d'oro (poema), 1517
 Del arte de la guerra, 1519-1520
 Discorso sopra il riformare lo stato di Firenze, 1520
 Sumario de la corte de la ciudad de Lucca, 1520
 La Vida de Castruccio Castracani, 1520
  Historia de Florencia, 8 libros, 1520-1525
 Historias florentinas (1521-1525)
Miguel De Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes, in full Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish novelist,
playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote (1605, 1615) and the most important
and celebrated figure in Spanish literature. His novel Don Quixote has been translated,
in full or in part, into more than 60 languages. Editions continue regularly to be printed,
and critical discussion of the work has proceeded unabated since the 18th century. At
the same time, owing to their widespread representation in art, drama, and film, the
figures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are probably familiar visually to more people
than any other imaginary characters in world literature. Cervantes was a great
experimenter. He tried his hand in all the major literary genres save the epic. He was a
notable short-story writer, and a few of those in his collection of Novelas exemplares
(1613; Exemplary Stories) attain a level close to that of Don Quixote, on a miniature
scale.

Work of Cervantes
Novels
Miguel de Cervantes cultivated, but in his original way, the usual narrative genres in the
second half of the 16th century: the Byzantine novel, the pastoral novel , the picaresque
novel , the Moorish novel , the Lucian satire , the miscellany . He renewed a genre, the
novel, which was then understood in the Italian style as a short story, free of rhetoric
and of greater importance.

Chronological order:
• At Galatea ( 1585 )
• The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha ( 1605 )
• Exemplary Novels ( 1613 )
• The Ingenious Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha ( 1615 )
• The Labors of Persiles and Sigismunda ( 1617 )

Dante Alighieri
Among the characteristics of the works of Dante Alighieri, it is noted that the narrative
describes Dante's journeys through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise or Heaven, while,
allegorically, the poem represents the journey of the soul towards God. Dante draws on
medieval Christian theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy and the
Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas. Consequently, the Divine Comedy has been
called "the Summa in verse."
The Roman poet Virgil guides him through Hell and Purgatory; Beatrice, Dante's ideal
woman, guides him through Heaven. Beatrice was a Florentine woman whom he had
known in childhood and admired from afar in the fashion of the courtly love tradition at
the time, highlighted in Dante's earlier work "La Vita Nuova".

The most important works of Dante Alighieri

• Vita nuova
• De vulgari eloquentia
• Il Convivio
• Monarchia
• The Divine Comedy

Edmund Spencer
Edmund Spenser was an English poet who lived during the Renaissance. (c. 1552/1553
– 13 January 1599) was an English poet and is best known for his epic poem The Faerie
Queene, which he wrote for Elizabeth I. Spenser is often remembered as one of the most
important poets in the English language, using an interesting writing style that became
known as the Spenserian stanza and a voluminous vocabulary. Spenser lived most of his
life in Ireland, where he opposed certain aspects of society. He married twice and had at
least two children. He died in London in 1599, at the age of 46-47.
• Jan van der Noodt’s A Theatre for Worldlings (1569), including poems translated
into English by Spenser from French sources, published by Henry Bynneman in
London
• The Shepheardes Calender (1579), published under the pseudonym “Immerito”
• The Faerie Queene, Books 1–3 (1590)
• The Faerie Queene
• Spenser is most well known for his book-length epic poem, The Faerie Queene. It
was one of the first attempts at an English epic poem, which he based on the Italian
classics. An epic poem is a long, historical work that attempts to document the
events and heroes of a time and place, a country and its culture.

Giovanny Bocaccio
The most important works of Giovanni Boccacio (1313-1375), one of the fathers
of Humanism and Renaissance literature along with Dante Alighieri and Francesco
Petrarca.

Boccacio, from a very young age, barely twenty years old, began to write. He left us
around twenty works written in Latin and Italian, which are usually divided between
works of youth and maturity. Among all of them, the following stand out: The hunt for
Diana (1334), La Teseida (1339-1341), Ninfale Fiesolano (1344-1346), Decameron
(1348), El Corbacho (1354), Genealogía Deorum Gentillium (1355) or De Claris
Mulieribus ( 1361-1362).
William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, Shakespeare was a
prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages of British theatre (sometimes
called the English Renaissance or the Early Modern Period). Shakespeare’s plays are
perhaps his most enduring legacy, but they are not all he wrote. Shakespeare’s poems
also remain popular to this day.

Shakespeare, the most popular of all playwrights, knew the Greek tragedy style well and
he used several Greek themes but modified them to his own purpose. He intentionally
violates the unity of action and mixes tragic actions with comical.

Shakespeare’s legacy is as rich and diverse as his work; his plays have spawned
countless adaptations across multiple genres and cultures. His plays have had an
enduring presence on stage and film. His writings have been compiled in various
iterations of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, which include all of his
plays, sonnets, and other poems. William Shakespeare continues to be one of the most
important literary figures of the English language.

There is no doubt that Shakespeare was a highly gifted person, but without proper
training he could not have scaled such heights. In spite of the meagre material, we have
got about his life, we can surmise that he must have undergone proper training first as
an actor, second as a reviser of old plays, and the last as an independent dramatist. He
worked with other dramatists and learned the secrets of their trade. He must have
studied deeply and observed minutely the people he came in contact with. His dramatic
output must, therefore, have been the result of his natural genius as well as of hard work
and industry.

Besides non—dramatic poetry consisting of two narrative poems, Venice and Adonis
and The Rape of Lucrece, and 154 sonnets, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays. His work as a
dramatist extended over some 24 years, beginning about 1588 and ending about 1612.
This work is generally divided into four periods.

NAME THEIR LITERARY WORKS AND ACTIVITIES.

Henry VI and Titus Andronicus, Love’s Labour Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona,
The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III, Romeo and
Juliet, Richard II, King John, The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV, Part I and II, Henry
V, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing,
As You Like It and Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, All’s Well that Ends Well,
Measure for Measure; Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and
Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Timon of Athens, Cymbeline, The Tempest and The
Winter’s Tale, which were completely written in collaboration with some other
dramatist.
Examples of tragedy written by Shakespeare include:
• Hamlet
• Othello
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Troilus and Cressida