- Omar Khayyam (1048-1131)
- (The Song of Roland) (c. 1100)
- (The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs) (12th century)
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)
- Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471)
- Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1405-1471)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
- Sir Thomas More (c. 1478-1535)
- Martin Luther (1483-1546)
- John Calvin (1509-1564)
- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- John Donne (1572-1631)
- William Harvey (1578-1657)
- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
- Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
- René Descartes (1596-1650)
