Italian diplomat, courtier, and writer, whose most well known literary work was Il libro del cortegiano (1528).

Roman general, senator, and brother-in-law of Brutus, best known as the leader of the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar. Following the death of Caesar, Cassius and Brutus engaged in war with the Second Triumvirate, the three-man dictatorship which took the place of Caesar's rule in the Roman Republic. Cassius committed suicide after his defeat at the Battle of Philippi.

The eponymous heroine of a sentimental novel by Calprenède.

In Greek mythology, the visionary daughter of King Priam of Troy was condemned by the god Apollo to prophesy but never be believed.

Second Jacobite Baron Caryll of Dunford and friend of Alexander Pope, deemed "John Caryll the Younger."

English poet, playwright, scholar, and preacher. Cartwright was a member of the literary group "Sons of Ben," though his poor imitations of Jonson have put the legitimacy of this status into question.

A well regarded poet and member of Elizabeth Montagu's Bluestocking Circle, Carter was also regarded as one of eighteenth-century Britain's leading female intellectuals for her translation, All the Works of Epictetus, Which Are Now Extant (1758), a milestone in the learned achievements of women. The first publication of her collected verse appeared as Poems upon Particular Occasions (1738). The subsequent Poems on Several Occasions came out in 1762 and was subsequently reprinted in an enlarged edition.

Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach was the German-born wife of King George II. As the beautiful and intelligent Queen consort, Caroline was said to have had much influence over her husband and his court. She is considered responsible for establishing Sir Robert Walpole as prime minister.

Roman poet, translator, and critic whose notable works include Gli Straccioni (1544), a translation of Virgil's Aeneid (1581), and, posthumously, Lettere familiare (1572-74).

Carlyle's humorous, idiosyncratic Sartor Resartus (1836) presents spiritual and philosophical reflections in the form of a biography of the fictional professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh. The French Revolution (1837) offered a dramatic reassessment of recent historical events that presented the revolution as an inevitable consequence of bad government. On Heroes, Hero-Worship & the Heroic in History (1841) argues that idolization of charismatic heroes is the foundation of all loyalties.