Troubadourism (1189 – 1418)

֍ Troubadourism (1189 - 1418) - Part 1
֍ Troubadourism (1189 - 1418) - Part 2

Humanism (1418 – 1527)

֍ Humanism and Renaissance
֍ Humanism in literature (1418 - 1527)
֍ Gil Vicente - Portugal
֍ Fernão Lopes  - Portugal
֍ Michel de Montaigne  - France
֍ Augustine  - Algeria/Italy
֍ Thomas Aquinas  - Italy
֍ Francesco Petrarch  - Italy
֍ Dante Alighieri  - Italy
֍ Giovanni Boccaccio  - Italy
֍ Erasmus of Rotterdam  - Netherlands
   
16th century - Brazil (1500 - 1600)
Quinhentismo represents the first literary manifestation in Brazil that also became known as "information literature".

Classicism (1527 – 1580)

֍ Classicism (1527 - 1580)
֍ Aristotle´s Poetics - Mimesis and catharsis
֍ Ovid - Loves and Metamorphoses
֍ Homer - A name shrouded in mistery
֍ Petronius - Arbiter of elegance
֍ Euripides - The tragic Greek atheist
֍ Virgil - The Roman Homer
֍ Sophocles - Renovator of Greek tragedy
֍ Luis de Camões - The greatest Portuguese epic poet
֍ Miguel de Cervantes 1 - Adventure spirit
֍ Miguel de Cervantes 2 - the greatest Exponent of Hispanic Literature
֍ William Shakespeare 1 - The Greatest, Most Popular and Most Mysterious English Playwright and Poet
֍ Shakespeare 2 - The vast work of the greatest English-language playwright
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Baroque (1601 – 1768)


Arcadism (1768 – 1836)


Romanticism (1836 – 1881)