Editing List of historians (section)

===Renaissance Europe===
:''Western historians during the [[Italian Renaissance]] or [[Northern Renaissance]]; those born post-1600 listed under "early modern"''
*[[Leonardo Bruni]] (1370–1444), humanist historian
*[[Flavio Biondo]] (1392–1463), humanist historian
*[[Philippe de Commines]] (1447–1511), French historian
*[[Robert Fabyan]] (died 1513), London [[alderman]] and chronicler
*[[Niccolò Machiavelli]] (1469–1527), author of ''[[Florentine Histories]]''
*[[Hector Boece]] (1465–1536), Scottish philosopher and historian, author of ''[[Historia Gentis Scotorum]]''
*[[Albert Krantz]] (1450–1517), German historian
*[[Polydore Vergil]] (c. 1470–1555), Tudor history
*[[Stephanus Brodericus]] (1480–1539), Croatian Hungarian bishop. Stephani Broderici narratio de praelio quo ad Mohatzium anno 1526 Ludovicus Hungariae rex periit(''De conflictu Hungarorum cum Turcis ad Mohacz verissima historia)'' 
*[[Francesco Guicciardini]] (1483–1540), historian of the [[Italian Wars]], "Storia d'Italia"
*[[Paolo Giovio]] (1486–1552), historian of the Italian Wars and the [[Renaissance Papacy]], ''Historiae''
*[[Paolo Sarpi]] (1552–1623), historian of the [[Council of Trent]]
*[[Olaus Magnus]] (c. 1490–1570), Swedish ecclesiastic
*[[Gáspár Heltai|Kaspar Helth]] (1490–1574), Transylvanian Saxon historian and Protestant preacher.<ref>[Krónika az magyaroknak viselt dolgairól –  Chronicle about deeds of Hungarians. http://mek.oszk.hu/06400/06417/html/heltaiga0070001.html.]</ref> 
*[[Nicolaus Olahus]] (1493–1568), Hungarian/Wallachian chronicler.<ref>[https://mek.oszk.hu/06000/06072/html/index.htm. Olah Miklós: Hungaria (in Hungarian)]</ref> [https://www.academia.edu/44002634/The_First_Edition_of_Nicolaus_Olahus_Hungaria_in_Matthias_Bels_Adparatus_1735_ H]
*[[João de Barros]] (1496–1570), Portuguese historian
*[[Aegidius Tschudi]] (1505–1572), Swiss historian 
*[[Oliver Mathews]] (c. 1520–c. 1618), Welsh chronicler
*[[Josias Simmler]] (1530–1576), Swiss classicist
*[[Ferenc Forgách, Bishop of Várad]] (1530–1577), Hungarian historian
*[[Arild Huitfeldt]] (1546–1609), Denmark
*[[Raphael Holinshed]] (died c. 1580), chronicler, source for Shakespeare plays
*[[Caesar Baronius]] (1538–1607), ecclesiastical historian
*[[Sigismund von Herberstein]] (1486–1566), Muscovite affairs
*[[Miklós Istvánffy]] (1538–1615) Hungarian historian<ref>Nicolai IsthuanfI Pannoni Historiarum de rebus Vngaricis libri 34, Antoni Hierati, 1622
[https://books.google.com/books?id=twvg2G5kJTsC].</ref>
*[[Paolo Paruta]] (1540–1598), Venetian historian
*[[Inca Garcilaso de la Vega|Garcilaso de la Vega]] (1539–1616), Spanish historian of Inca history
*[[Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin]] ({{fl.|1579–1590}}). Irish historian