Protestants in the arts and letters – Literature in the 16th century - Literature in the 16th century
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The powerful renewing social and spiritual movement presented by the Reformation could not fail to mark contemporary literature : prestigious names testified of this. A wide range of genres were influenced by it.
Literature in the 16th century
Marguerite d'Angoulême (1492-1549)
Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552-1630)
Guillaume Du Bartas (1544-1590)
Théodore de Bèze (1519-1605)
Jean Calvin (1509-1564)
Sébastien Castellion (1515-1563)
Robert Estienne (1503-1559)
François Hotman (1524-1590)
François de La Noue (1531-1591)
Clément Marot (1496-1544)
Philippe de Mornay, also called Duplessis-Mornay (1549-1623)