#17th century

• Alcoforado — Mariana Alcoforado (1640–1723), a Portuguese nun from Beja, historically considered the alleged author of the famous 'Portuguese Letters' (Lettres portugaises), published in France in 1669. This epistolary work contains five passionate and desperate love letters addressed to a French officer, representing a structural monument of European passionate literature and a subject heavily debated by critics regarding the authenticity or authorship of the text.
• Antonie-Vodă — A compound historical name designating the personality of Antonie of Popești, ruler of Wallachia between 1669 and 1672. This structural appellation associates the monarch's canonical given name with the official title of Slavic-Byzantine origin 'vodă' (short for voivode), being used predominantly in period chronicles, historiographical studies, and archival documents to individualize his reign, which was marked by the influence of the prominent Cantacuzino family.
• Apafi — The name of an illustrious Hungarian noble family from Transylvania, among whom Mihai Apafi I (1632–1690) and his son Mihai Apafi II stood out as the last independent princes of the Principality of Transylvania before the territory's complete integration into the Habsburg Empire through the Leopoldine Diploma. The reign of this dynasty was marked by a fragile diplomatic balance between the Sublime Porte and the court in Vienna.
• Aubignac — A proper surname of French origin; it refers specifically to François Hédelin, known as the Abbé d'Aubignac (1604–1676), a French writer, playwright, and theater theorist. His fundamental work, 'The Practice of the Theatre', codified the rules of French classicism, rigorously defending the rule of the three unities (action, time, and place) and the concept of verisimilitude in dramatic art.