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| 98 |
| | | Tacitus begins his career with two specialized but influential works of history, one on Britain and the other on Germany | |
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| c. 125 |
| | | Suetonius, librarian to Trajan and personal secretary to Hadrian, is well placed to research his racy Lives of the Caesars | |
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| c. 170 |
| | | Marcus Aurelius is rare among emperors in writing twelve books of philosophical Meditations | |
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| c. 244 |
| | | Plotinus, moving from Alexandria to Rome, teaches the influential philosophy later known as Neo-Platonism | |
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| 525 |
| | | Dionysius Exiguus, commissioned by the pope to improve chronology, makes an error of at least four years in his selected event for AD 1 | |
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| c. 525 |
| | | Boethius, in prison in Pavia and awaiting execution, writes the Consolation of Philosophy | |
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| c. 1260 |
| | | A new form of poetry is written in northern Italy, described later by Dante as a sweet new style - the dolce stil nuovo | |
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| c. 1266 |
| | | Thomas Aquinas begins the outstanding work of medieval scholasticism, his Summa Theologiae | |
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| c. 1307 |
| | | Dante, in exile from Florence, begins work on The Divine Comedy - completing it just before his death, 14 years later | |
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| 1327 |
| | | Petrarch glimpses Laura in a church in Avignon and falls helplessly in love with her - or so he tells us | |
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