WIsabella Teotochi Albrizzi was a Greek - Venetian writer, salonist and countess.
WJulije Balović was an entrepreneur, polyglot, judge, sea captain Venetian military officer and collector of epic poetry from Venetian held Perast. Some sources speculated that he authored some of the literature works he collected. Balović wrote several manuscripts which are considered as significant literature works and historical sources. His multilingual dictionary is one of the earliest records of Albanian language.
WLuisa Bergalli, was a Venetian writer and translator.
WFrancesco Colonna was an Italian Dominican priest and monk who was credited with the authorship of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by an acrostic formed by initial letters of the text.
WModerata Fonte, pseudonym of Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi, also known as Modesto Pozzo, (1555–1592) was a Venetian writer and poet. Besides the posthumously-published dialogues, Giustizia delle donne and Il merito delle donne, for which she is best known, she wrote a romance and religious poetry. Details of her life are known from the biography by Giovanni Niccolò Doglioni (1548-1629), her uncle, included as a preface to the dialogue.
WAlberto Fortis (1741–1803) was a Venetian writer, naturalist and cartographer.
WGiovanni Antonio Tagliente was a calligrapher, author, printer and publisher based in Venice during the Renaissance period.
WCristoforo Ivanovich (1620–1689) was the first historian of Venetian opera, who also wrote several librettos.
WBartol Kašić was a Jesuit clergyman and grammarian during the Counter-Reformation, who wrote the first Croatian grammar and translated the Bible and the Roman Rite into Croatian.
WHanibal Lucić or Annibale Lucio was a Croatian Renaissance poet and playwright, author of the first secular drama in Croatian language.
WMarco Polo was a Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. His travels are recorded in The Travels of Marco Polo, a book that described to Europeans the then mysterious culture and inner workings of the Eastern world, including the wealth and great size of the Mongol Empire and China in the Yuan Dynasty, giving their first comprehensive look into China, Persia, India, Japan and other Asian cities and countries.