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Born 1528 • Lisbon • Portugal
Died 1569 (aged 41) • Lisbon • Portugal
Notable Works “The Tragedy of Ines de Castro”
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Francisco de Sá de Miranda
Portuguese author
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Gil Vicente
Portuguese dramatist
Garrett, João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida, visconde (viscount) de Almeida Garrett
João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, viscount de Almeida Garrett
Portuguese writer
St. José de Anchieta
St. José de Anchieta
Portuguese author and scholar
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Pedro António Correia Garção
Portuguese poet
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José Régio
Portuguese author and critic
Dinis, detail of a watercolour by Alfredo Roque Gameiro, 19th century
Júlio Dinis
Portuguese author
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Spanish author
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Early 20th century black and white portrait of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, seated and resting his face on his hand.
Federico García Lorca
Spanish writer
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
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Franz Grillparzer
Austrian dramatist
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Alessandro Manzoni, oil painting by Francesco Hayez; in the Brera Gallery, Milan.
Alessandro Manzoni
Italian author

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