Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

male, deceased (1645)
Spanish Golden Century, Siglo de Oro, Philip IV, spanish, sonnet, seventeenthcentury…XVII Century
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas was a Spanish writer during the Spanish Golden Century. The son of noble parents, he was born in...
Chief Powhatan

Chief Powhatan

male, deceased (1618)
from Virginia, Powhaten, Werowocomoco, Wahunsenacawh, tidewater Virginia, Tenakomakah…seventeenthcentury
Chief Powhatan ("c." 1547-"c." 1618), whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh or (in seventeenth century English spelling) Wahunsunacock, was the...

Richard Head

male, deceased (1686)
writer, British, seventeenthcentury, St. Peter's College, Oxford University, rogue
Richard Head (1637?-1686?), author of the first part of the "English Rogue" (1665) and " Proteus redivivus: the art of wheedling or insinuation in...
J. H. Hexter

J. H. Hexter

male, deceased (1996)
historian, British history, Tudor period, Washington University faculty, tudor, Historiographer…seventeenthcentury
Jack H. Hexter was an American historian, a specialist in Tudor and seventeenth century British history, and well known for his comments on...

Bernard Smith

male, deceased (1708)
seventeenthcentury, St Mary the Great with St Michael, Cambridge, tower of london, chapel, Trinity College, Cambridge, Emmanuel College, Cambridge…17th century
"Father" Bernard Smith (c. 1630 - 1708) was a German-born master organ maker in England in the late seventeenth century. Smith served his...

Henry Reynolds

male
poet, seventeenthcentury, English, tasso, Neo-Platonism, Aminta Englisht
Henry Reynolds was an English poet and literary critic of the seventeenth century. He is known for two works, "Aminta Englisht" of 1628, a...

Richard Gough

male, deceased (1809)
anglo-saxon, French, British, 17th century, britannia, seventeenthcentury…15th century
Richard Gough was an English antiquarian, born in London. His father was a wealthy M.P. and director of the British East India Company. Gough was a...
Moses Cordovero

Moses Cordovero

male
seventeenthcentury, tuscany, livorno, leghorn, Conforte
Moses Cordovero was a physician who lived at Leghorn (Livorno), Tuscany in the seventeenth century. David Conforte praises him as a good physician,...
Jean Rousset

Jean Rousset

male, deceased (2002)
writer, Swiss, baroque, geneva school, Renaissance, seventeenthcentury
Jean Rousset (1910, Geneva - 2002) was a Swiss literary critic who worked on French literature, and in particular on "Baroque" literature of the...
Frans van Schooten

Frans van Schooten

male, deceased (1660)
seventeenthcentury, analytic geometry, 17th century, dutch, leiden, mathematician
Franciscus van Schooten was a Dutch mathematician who is most known for popularizing the analytic geometry of René Descartes. Van Schooten read D...