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Baltasar Castiglione Biography Baldassare or Baltasar Castiglione (December 6, 1478 – February 2, 1529) Born in Casatico, Italy. Italian diplomat, writer and religious, famous for his...
Virgil biography Publio Virgilio Marón (October 15, 70 b.C. – September 21, 19 b.C.), Roman poet, author of The Aeneid. He was born in the Andes,...
Sophocles biography Sophocles (495 b.C.-406 b.C.) Greek tragic poet. Born in the Colona region, Greece. Son of a rich gunsmith named Sophilo. During his youth he...
Percy Bysshe Shelley biography Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822), poet and representative of English romanticism. He was born in Worthing, West...
Montesquieu biography Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu (January 18, 1689) was a philosopher, writer, judge,...
Hesiod biography Hesiod (750 – 600 b.C.), poet. He was born in Ascra, Boeotia, Greece. His family settled in Boeotia, after leaving behind Cumas, home of...
The Brothers Grimm biography The Brothers Grimm were philologists and folklorists. Born in Hanau, Berlin, Germany. Jacob Grimm was the eldest (1785 – 1863) and Wilhelm...
Eurípides biography Euripides (September 23, 480 – 406 b.C.), poet and dramatist. He was born on the island of Salamis, just as the famous battle of...
Aesop biography Aesop (VI a.C.) fabulist. This man was described by Herodotus, in his works, as a slave of a citizen of Samos called Xanthus. According...
Dan Brown biography The writer and musician Daniel Brown, known simply as Dan Brown, was born on June 22, 1964, in the town of Exeter, Rockingham...