Homer:  The Iliad and The Odyssey (c. 850-750 bce)

Virgil (70-19 bce):  The Aeneid (31-19 bce)

Dante (1265-1321):  The Divine Comedy (1307-21)

Ludivico Ariosto ( 1474-1533):  Orlando Furioso (1516-1532)

Torquato Tasso (1544-1595):  Jerusalem Delivered (1581; 1600)

Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599):  The Faerie Queen (1590; 1596)