Renaissance, 1300–1600

Dante (1265 - 1321): The divine comedy : The Vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
Petrarch, 1304-1374: Lyric Poems; Selections
Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313-1375: The Decameron
Christine de Pisan, 1365-c.1434: The Book of the City of Ladies
Matteo Maria Boiardo, 1440 or 41–1494: Orlando Innamorato
Lodovico Ariosto, 1474-1533: Orlando Furioso
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469–1527: The Prince; The Mandrake, a Comedy.
Benvenuto Cellini, 1500–1571: Autobiography
Torquato Tasso: Jerusalem Delivered
Tommaso Campanella, 1568-1639: The City of the Sun

Geoffrey Chaucer, (ca.1343-1400): The Canterbury Tales; Troilus and Criseyde.
Thomas Malory, 1430-1471: Le morte d'Arthur
Thomas More, 1478-1535: Utopia;
Edmund Spenser, 1552-1599: The Faerie Queene;
Sir Philip Sidney, 1554-1586.: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia; Astrophel and Stella; An Apology for Poetry
Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593: Poems and plays.
Thomas Nashe: The Unfortunate Traveller.
Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy.
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616: Poems and plays.
John Donne, 1572-1631: Poems; Sermons
Ben Jonson, 1573-1637: Poems, Plays, and Masques.
John Webster, c.1580-c.1634: The Duchess of Malfi; The White Devil;
John Ford, 1586-ca.1640: The Broken Heart; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
Francis Bacon, 1561–1626: Essays.
Izaak Walton, 1593-1683: The Compleat Angler;
The King James Bible
Robert Burton, 1577–1640: The Anatomy of Melancholy
Thomas Hobbes, 1588–1679: Leviathan.
Thomas Browne, 1605–1682: Religio Medici; Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall; The Garden of Cyrus
John Milton, 1608-1674: Areopagitica; Paradise Lost;

Diego de San Pedro, ca.1437-ca.1498: Prison of Love
Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1466–1536: In Praise of Folly.
Francois Rabelais, 1494?-1553?: Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel;
Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592: Essays;
Miguel de Cervantes, 1547-1616: Don Quixote; Exemplary Stories.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, 1600–1681: Life is a Dream; The Mayor of Zalamea; The Mighty Magician; The Doctor of His Own Honor.