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Sonneteers
- MichelangeloMichelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni arrived in the world on the 6th of March 1475 within the small town of Caprese.
- William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, and baptised on the 26th of April 1564. His father John worked as an alderman and a…
- John KeatsJohn Keats was born in Moorgate, London, on the 31st of October 1795, into a world that would eventually crown him a master of English verse, yet his origins…
- Percy Bysshe ShelleyOn a summer day in 1804, Percy Bysshe Shelley stood before the wooden paling fence at Eton College. He held a bag of gunpowder he had stolen from the school…
- Dante AlighieriIn the year 1300, a man named Dante Alighieri claimed to have walked through Hell. He wrote that he was midway upon the journey of his life when this vision…
- William WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth entered the world on the 7th of April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland. He was the second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann…
- Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges was born on the 24th of August 1899 in Palermo, a poor neighborhood of Buenos Aires. His family lived in a large house filled with an…
- Charles BaudelaireOn the 10th of February 1827, Joseph-François Baudelaire died at rue Hautefeuille in Paris. The death left his nine-year-old son Charles without a father and…
- John MiltonJohn Milton was born on the 9th of December 1608 in Bread Street, London. His father, also named John Milton, had moved to London around 1583 after being…
- Rainer Maria RilkePrague, the capital of Bohemia in 1875, witnessed the birth of René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke. His mother Sophie Entz treated her only son as a…
- Frederick II, Holy Roman EmperorOn the 26th of December 1194, a child named Frederick was born in the market square of Jesi. The location itself was unusual for a royal birth and…
- Michael DraytonMichael Drayton arrived in the world at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, during early 1563. Very little documentation exists regarding his…
- Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, around the year 1552. His parentage remains obscure to modern historians, though evidence suggests he was…
- PetrarchFrancesco di Petracco entered the world on the 20th of July 1304 in the Tuscan city of Arezzo. His father Ser Petracco worked as a notary, and his mother was…
- Joachim du BellayJoachim du Bellay was born at the Castle of La Turmelière, not far from Liré, near Angers. His father Jean du Bellay served as Lord of Gonnor and stood as…
- Philip SidneyPenshurst Place in Kent served as the birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney on the 30th of November 1554. He emerged from a family deeply embedded in English…
- Thomas Wyatt (poet)Sir Thomas Wyatt entered the world at Allington Castle near Maidstone in Kent during 1503. His family traced their roots back to Yorkshire before settling in…
- Luís de CamõesLuís Vaz de Camões, born around 1524 in Lisbon, emerged from a noble family with deep roots in the Kingdom of Galicia. His father, Simão Vaz de Camões…
- Pierre de RonsardPierre de Ronsard was born at the Manoir de la Possonnière in the village of Couture-sur-Loir, Vendômois on the 11th of September 1524.