Niccolo Machiavelli
Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Renaissance
italian renaissance writers
Baldassare Castiglione
Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author.Castiglione wrote Il Cortegiano or The Book of the Courtier, a courtesy book dealing with questions of the etiquette and morality of the courtier
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist