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Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born June 1608 • England
Died June 16, 1666 (aged 58) • Madrid • Spain
Notable Works “The Lusiads”
George Sandys, engraving after a portrait by Cornelius Janssen; frontispiece to Relation of a Journey (1615)
George Sandys
English poet and traveler
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
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Sidney Godolphin
English poet
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William Painter
English author
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Terence Tiller
British writer
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Jasper Heywood
English priest and poet
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
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Gawin Douglas
Scottish bishop and poet
Delille, detail of an engraving by Antoine Cardon after a painting by J.-L. Monnier
Jacques Delille
French writer
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
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Nicholas Udall
English writer
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Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
Pembroke, Mary Herbert, countess of
Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke
English translator
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Sir John Harington
English author
Elizabeth Carter, portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Elizabeth Carter
British author
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Giles Fletcher the Elder
English author
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Thomas May
English scholar
Elijah Fenton, engraving
Elijah Fenton
British poet

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