Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer, and Catholic theologian
17th-century male writers
John Milton
English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell
John Donne
English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world’s pre-eminent novelists