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Martial

Roman poet

Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

Karl Kraus

Austrian writer

Juan José Arreola

Mexican writer

Ferenc Kazinczy

Hungarian literary scholar

Claudian

Roman author

Gregório de Matos Guerra

Brazilian poet

Sandro Penna

Italian poet

John Owen

Welsh epigrammatist

Alexis Piron

French dramatist

Johan Herman Wessel

Danish author

Friedrich von Logau

German writer

Wacław Potocki

Polish poet

Anyte

Greek poet

J.V. Cunningham

American poet and critic

Antoine Rivaroli, count de Rivarol

French author

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

French author

Leonidas of Tarentum

Greek poet

Aulus Licinius Archias

Greek poet

Albinovanus Pedo

Roman poet