16th-century civil servants from the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman biographer, poet, and translator

Ottoman statesperson of Slovene origin (14..–1521)

influential Ottoman official, bureaucrat, author and military officer,

Ottoman historian (1490–1567)

Ottoman court poet (1444–1506)

finance secretary of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman governor

ambassador of Ottoman Empire

1510-1571

thumb|Latıfı (detail). From Mesâ’irü’ssu’arâ, Asık Çelebi, late 16th or early 17th century, Istanbul Millet Library, A. E. Tarih 772, fol.41a Latifî (1491–1582), or Kastamonulu Latifî Çelebi, was an Ottoman poet and bibliographer. Born in Kastamonu, in northern Anatolia, he became famous for his tezkire ''Tezkiretü'ş-Şuara'' (Memoirs of the Poets), the second Ottoman collection of bibliographical data on poets and poetry in overall.

ottoman poet and bibliographer