English antiquary, topographer, and king-of-arms. Camden is best remembered for his Britannia (1586), a pioneering topographical survey of Great Britain, and Annales (1615), the first detailed account of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, which became the basis for most later accounts of Elizabeth's reign.

The best known work of this poet is The Scribleriad (1751). He contributed to the World between 1753 and 1756.

French theologian and Protestant reformer responsible for the doctrine known as Calvinism. After publishing his Institution de la religion in 1536, he moved to Geneva, where he published sermons, commentaries, and letters developing and refining the doctrine of predestination, sin, and grace.

Calprenède was known along with d'Urfé and Scudéry for promoting literary and cultural aesthetics of delicate refinement exalting chivalric virtues partly through long works of romance fiction that constitute the most significant examples of the Roman de longue haleine, literally the "long-winded novel." His most popular works in that genre include Cassandre (1642-45), which stretched to ten volumes and was translated into English as Cassandra, the Fam'd Romance (1652), and Cléopâtre (1646-57), a twelve volume work, translated as Hymen's Praeludia, or Love's Masterpiece (1665).

The half-human, half-monster son of the banished witch Sycorax in Shakespeare's The Tempest, one of the only Shakespearean figures to come to have its own literary existence outside of the work for which it was created. Caliban's mother dies shortly before the arrival of Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, and Caliban's subsequent enslavement. Caliban worships Setebos, the entity he believes to be his mother's god, and appeals to her powers to free him from Prospero's torment.

Medium, magician, and psychic healer Count Cagliostro enjoyed a number of years as a sensation in the fashionable circles of eighteenth-century Europe until his wife denounced him to the Inquisition.

Roman general, statesman, member of the First Triumvirate, and eventually sole dictator, assassinated on the Ides of March.

First Roman Emperor following the demise of the republic that had been destroyed by the dictatorship of Julius Caesar, Augustus's great-uncle and adoptive father. Considered as one of the greatest Roman Emperors, Augustus's reign was characterized by relative peace and prosperity. Hence, Latin literature flourished during the Augustan Age, with writers inspired by the peace they enjoyed as well as their ruler who secured it.

Character in Samuel Richardson's History of Sir Charles Grandison (1754).

A phenomenally popular author also known for his flamboyant and scandalous personal life, Lord Byron produced so much noteworthy work that a complete list is impossible in a short note. Highlights include English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-19), The Giaour (1813), The Bride of Abydos (1813), The Corsair (1814), Lara (1814), Hebrew Melodies (1815), The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems (1816), Manfred (1817), Beppo (1818), and Don Juan (1819-24).