The Italian poet whose La Gierusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) dates from 1581 also garnered much sympathy among later readers for his long confinement to a mental asylum. Rinaldo (1562), his first publication, is an epic poem. Aminta, written in 1573 and published in 1591, and Torrismondo (1586) are dramas. His shorter poems include many odes and love sonnets. He authored criticism as well, especially Discorsi dell'arte poetica (1587) and Discorsi del poema erico (1594).

Known as "Tamerlane" in English, Timur Lenk was a Turco-Mongol conqueror and founder of the Timurid Empire around modern-day Iran, Afghanistan, and central Asia. Timur is remembered for his military prowess as well as the barbarity of his conquests. His life has been memorialized in numerous plays, operas, films, and poems, perhaps most notably in Nicholas Rowe's Tamerlane (1701), Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I and II (1563-1594), Edgar Allan Poe's "Tamerlane" (1827), Antonio Vivaldi's Bajazet (1735), and George Frideric Handel's Tamerlano (1724). .

English lawyer, polititian, and patron of the arts who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1733 to 1737.

English Whig politician who served as Chief Minister of Great Britain, Lord High Treasurer, Lord Chamberlain, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Secretary of State for the Southern Department, and Secretary of State for the Northern Department. Talbot was part of the Immortal Seven group which sent for William of Orange to depose King James II during the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

Noted eighteenth-century bluestocking, author, and scholar Catherine Talbot declined to publish any but a very few of her writings during her lifetime. They were edited by her friend Elizabeth Carter as The Works of the Late Mrs. Catherine Talbot (1780). On her father's early death she was adopted by her father's friend, Thomas Secker, later Archbishop of Canterbury.

Wife of Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, and mistress of George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, Henry Jermyn, 1st Baron Dover, Colonel Thomas Howard. After Francis Talbot died in duel with George Villiers, Anna moved into the home of Villiers and his wife and gave birth to Villiers' illegitimate son. After the affair was broken off in 1673, Anna's child went to her parents, and she lived in a convent in France. She returned to England in 1677 and remarried with George Rodney Brydges, MP for Haslemere and Winchester.

One of the most respected among Roman historians and politicians.

English poet and translator, best remembered for his translation of the popular biblical epic Divine Weekes and Workes by Guillaume du Bartas, a French protestant.

A prolific poet, satirist, and political pamphleteer, Swift began his career in satirical fiction with A Tale of a Tub (1704). His most famous work is Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships (1726). A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick (1729) is his best remembered non-fiction satire.

Diplomat Robert Sutton married Judith, née Tichborne, Countess of Sunderland (Sutton, Judith, ca. 1702-1749 ), with whom he had a daughter, Miss Isabella Sutton.