What are composer and poets from the region of northern Italy southern France?

* Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

* Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)

* Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)

* François Couperin (1668-1733)

* Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)

* Niccolò Jommelli (1714-1774)

* Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)

* Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)

* Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851)

* Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

Poets

* Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

* Petrarch (1304-1374)

* Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)

* François Villon (1431-1463)

* Clément Marot (1496-1544)

* Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585)

* Joachim du Bellay (1522-1560)

* Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)

* Giambattista Marino (1569-1625)

* Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655)