Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (28 October 1466 – 12 July 1536), known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian.
Erasmus was a classical scholar and wrote in a pure Latin style. Among humanists he enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists", and has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists". Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament, which raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. He also wrote On Free Will, The Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Cop
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In 1694, Age of Enlightenment leader Francois-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was born in Paris. Jesuit-educated, he began writing clever verses by the age of 12. He launched a lifelong, successful playwriting career in 1718, interrupted by imprisonment in the Bastille. Upon a second imprisonment, in which Francois adopted the pen name Voltaire, he was released after agreeing to move to London. There he wrote Lettres philosophiques (1733), which galvanized French reform. The book also satirized the religious teachings of Rene Descartes and Blaise Pascal, including Pascal's famed "wager" on God. Voltaire wrote: "The interest I have in believing a thing is not a proof of the exi -
Baldassare Castiglione
Best known Italian diplomat Count Baldassare Castiglione in 1528 wrote Il Cortegiano , which describes the perfect courtier.
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Probably most famous prominent soldier Baldassarre Castiglione of Casatico in Renaissance authored the book. The very influential work, an example of a book, dealt with questions of the etiquette and morality in 16th-century European circles.
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Peter Damian
Saint Peter Damian (Latin: Petrus Damianus; Italian: Pietro or Pier Damiani; c. 1007 – 21 or 22 February 1072 or 1073) was a reforming Benedictine monk and cardinal in the circle of Pope Leo IX. Dante placed him in one of the highest circles of Paradiso as a great predecessor of Saint Francis of Assisi and he was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1828. His feast day is February 21.
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Ann Druyan
Ann Druyan (born June 13, 1949) is an American author and media producer known for her involvement in many projects aiming to popularize and explain science. She is probably best-known as the last wife of Carl Sagan, and co-author of the Cosmos series and book, along with Sagan and Steven Soter.
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In her writings, Druyan has stressed the idea that people can have a sense of awe and wonder about the unity of the cosmos without introducing the concept of a god.
Druyan wrote the books Comet and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, as well as sections of The Demon-Haunted World, with her late husband Carl Sagan. In addition, she wrote an introduction to The Cosmic Connection and the epilogue to Billions and Billions, both by Sagan. Alone, she wrote the -
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Giacomo Leopardi
Italian scholar, poet, essayist and philosopher, one of the great writers of the 19th century.
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Leopardi's love problems inspired some of his saddest lyrics. Despite having lived in a small town, Leopardi was in touch with the main ideas of the Enlightenment movement. His literary evolution turned him into one of the well known Romantic poets.
In his late years, when he lived in an ambiguous relationship with his friend Antonio Ranieri on the slopes of Vesuvius, Leopardi meditated upon the possibility of the total destruction of humankind.
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Mark Coeckelbergh
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Frédéric Gros
Frédéric Gros, né le 30 novembre 1965 à Saint-Cyr-l’École est un philosophe français, spécialiste de Michel Foucault. Il est professeur de pensée politique à l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)
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Nigel Warburton
Nigel Warburton is Senior Lecturer at the Open University and author of a number of popular books about philosophy.
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Warburton received a BA from the University of Bristol and a PhD from Darwin College, Cambridge and was a lecturer at the University of Nottingham before joining the Department of Philosophy at the Open University in 1994.
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Stefano Benni
Stefano Benni (Bologna, 1947 – Bologna, 2025) è stato uno scrittore, umorista, giornalista, sceneggiatore, poeta e drammaturgo italiano.
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Stefano Benni (1947-2025) was an Italian satirical writer, poet and journalist. His books have been translated into around 20 foreign languages and scored notable commercial success. He sold 2,5 million copies of his books in Italy.
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Joan Didion
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Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. Over the course of her career, Didion wrote essays for many magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, Life, Esquire, The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, and the history and culture of California. Didion's political writing in the 1980s and 1990s often concentrated on the subtext of political rhetoric and the United Stat -
Virgil
born 15 October 70 BC
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died 21 September 19 BC
Roman poet Virgil, also Vergil, originally Publius Vergilius Maro, composed the Aeneid , an epic telling after the sack of Troy of the wanderings of Aeneas.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
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Jack London
John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
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London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Greek: Αριστοτέλης; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.
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Little is known about Aristotle's life. He was born in the city of Stagira in northern Greece during the Classical period. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, and he was brought up by a guardian. At 17 or 18, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of 37 (c. 3 -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
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Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita , published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
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He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run ), and The Days of the Turbins . He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.
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Émile Zola
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Zola began his literary career working as a clerk for a publishing house, where he developed his skills and cultivated a passion for literature. His early novels, such as Thérèse -
John Milton
People best know John Milton, English scholar, for Paradise Lost , the epic poem of 1667 and an account of fall of humanity from grace.
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Beelzebub, one fallen angel in Paradise Lost, of John Milton, lay in power next to Satan.
Belial, one fallen angel, rebelled against God in Paradise Lost of John Milton.
John Milton, polemicist, man of letters, served the civil Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote in blank verse at a time of religious flux and political upheaval.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince , book of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian political theorist, in
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1513 describes an indifferent ruler to moral considerations with determination to achieve and to maintain power.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, a philosopher, musician, and poet, wrote plays. He figured centrally in component of the Renaissance, and people most widely know his realist treatises on the one hand and republicanism of Discourses on Livy .
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Lope de Vega
Lope de Vega was a Spanish Baroque playwright and poet. His reputation in the world of Spanish letters is second only to that of Cervantes, while the sheer volume of his literary output is unequaled: he is estimated to have written up to 1,500 three-act plays – of which some 425 have survived until the modern day – together with a plethora of shorter dramatic and poetic works.
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Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher is a senior editor at The American Conservative. He has written and edited for the New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, National Review, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Washington Times, and the Baton Rouge Advocate. Rod’s commentary has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, Beliefnet, and Real Simple, among other publications, and he has appeared on NPR, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the BBC. He lives in St. Francisville, Louisiana, with his wife Julie and their three children. He has also written two books, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming and Crunchy Cons.
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Charles Yu
CHARLES YU is the author of four books, including his latest, Interior Chinatown, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for Le Prix Médicis étranger. He has received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, been nominated for two Writers Guild of America awards for his work on the HBO series Westworld, and has also written for shows on FX, AMC, Facebook Watch, and Adult Swim. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Wired, Time and Ploughshares. You can find him on Twitter @charles_yu.
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Nikolai Gogol
People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).
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Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and especially Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
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Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaign -
Mencius
Mencius (Chinese: 孟子; pinyin: Mèng Zǐ; Wade–Giles: Meng Tzu; Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄇㄥˋ ㄗˇ, most accepted dates: 372 – 289 BCE; other possible dates: 385 – 303/302 BCE) was a Chinese philosopher who was arguably the most famous Confucian after Confucius himself.
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Also known by his birth name Meng Ke or Ko, Mencius was born in the State of Zou, now forming the territory of the county-level city of Zoucheng (originally Zouxian), Shandong province, only thirty kilometres (eighteen miles) south of Qufu, Confucius' birthplace.
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C.S. Lewis
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Clive Staples Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954. He was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the -
Reşat Nuri Güntekin
Reşat Nuri Güntekin (Istanbul, 25 November 1889 - London, 13 December 1956) was a Turkish novelist, storywriter and playwright. His novel, Çalıkuşu ("The Wren", 1922) is about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher in Anatolia; the movie was filmed on this book in 1966, and remade as TV series in 1986. His narrative has a detailed and precise style, with a realistic tone. His other significant novels include Yeşil Gece ("Green Night") and Yaprak Dökümü ("The Fall Of Leaves")
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His father was a major in the army. Reşat Nuri attended primary school in Çanakkale, the Çanakkale Secondary School and the İzmir School of Freres. He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature in 1912. He worked as a teacher and administra -
Thomas More
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More opposed the Protestant Reformation, in particular the theology of Martin Luther and William Tyndale. He also wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary ideal island nation. More opposed the King's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted -
Edgar Allan Poe
The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (May 14/June 13 1265 – September 13/14, 1321), is one of the greatest poets in the Italian language; with the comic story-teller, Boccaccio, and the poet, Petrarch, he forms the classic trio of Italian authors. Dante Alighieri was born in the city-state Florence in 1265. He first saw the woman, or rather the child, who was to become the poetic love of his life when he was almost nine years old and she was some months younger. In fact, Beatrice married another man, Simone di' Bardi, and died when Dante was 25, so their relationship existed almost entirely in Dante's imagination, but she nonetheless plays an extremely important role in his poetry. Dante attributed all the heavenly virtues to her soul and imagi
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Athanasius of Alexandria
born perhaps 293
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Greek patriarch Saint Athanasius, known as "the Great," of Alexandria led defenders of Christian orthodoxy against Arianism.
An Athanasian follows him, especially in opposition to Arianism.
Christians attributed Athanasian Creed, which dates probably from the fifth century, but people now consider its unknown origin.
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G.K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.
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He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly co -
Amy Levy
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She was educated at Brighton High School, Brighton, and studied at Newnham College, Cambridge; she was the first Jewish student at Newnham, when she arrived in 1879, but left after four terms.
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Stuart Ritchie
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Tommaso Campanella
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Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon (8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. The Decline and Fall is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organised religion.
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Gibbon returned to England in June 1765. His father died in 1770, and after tending to the estate, which was by no means in good condition, there remained quite enough for Gibbon to settle fashionably in London at 7 Bentinck Street, independent of financial concerns. By February 1773, he was writing in earnest, but not without the occasional self-imposed distraction. He took -
Lucian of Samosata
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François Kersaudy
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Leon Battista Alberti
Influential treatises on painting, architecture, and sculpture of Italian writer Leon Battista Alberti introduced classical ideas into Renaissance art.
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This author, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer, and general humanist polymath, often characterized exclusively, as James Beck observed, "to single out one of Leon Battista's 'fields' over others as somehow functionally independent and self-sufficient is of no help at all to any effort to characterize Alberti's extensive explorations in the fine arts." Giorgio Vasari described life of Alberti in Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori or "Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects."
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Ernst Cassirer
Ernst Cassirer was one of the major figures in the development of philosophical idealism in the first half of the twentieth century, a German Jewish philosopher. Coming out of the Marburg tradition of neo-Kantianism, he developed a philosophy of culture as a theory of symbols founded in a phenomenology of knowledge.
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Pierre-Hervé Grosjean
Après son baccalauréat, il est admis en classe préparatoire au Prytanée de La Flèche. C’est ensuite au sein du scoutisme qu'il trouve sa vocation, au contact d’un aumônier. Entré au Séminaire Saint-Sulpice à 19 ans en 1996, il est ordonné à Versailles, le 27 juin 2004 par Mgr Éric Aumonier. Il devient alors vicaire à la Cathédrale Saint-Louis de Versailles, avant de rejoindre la paroisse d'Houilles-Carrières-sur-Seine. Il est nommé curé de la paroisse de Saint-Cyr-l'École en 2012. Il est titulaire d'une licence de théologie morale, soutenue en octobre 2007 à l'Institut catholique de Paris.
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Nommé secrétaire général de la commission « Éthique et Politique » du diocèse de Versailles, il s'occupe des questions concernant la politique, la bioéthi -
Ludwig Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 – September 13, 1872) was a German philosopher and anthropologist best known for his book The Essence of Christianity, which provided a critique of Christianity which strongly influenced generations of later thinkers, including both Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
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Feuerbach was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, brother of mathematician Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach and uncle of painter Anselm Feuerbach. An associate of Left Hegelian circles, Feuerbach advocated liberalism, atheism and materialism. Many of his philosophical writings offered a critical analysis of religion. His thought was influential in the development of dialectical materialism, where he is ofte -
Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 - December 11, 1920), was a South African author, pacifist and political activist. She is best known for her novel The Story of an African Farm, which has been acclaimed for the manner it tackled the issues of its day, ranging from agnosticism to the treatment of women.
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Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner (1855-1920) was named after her three older brothers, Oliver (1848-1854), Albert (1843-1843) and Emile (1852-1852), who died before she was born. She was the ninth of twelve children born to a missionary couple, Gottlob Schreiner and Rebecca Lyndall at the Wesleyan Missionary Society station at Wittebergen in the Eastern Cape, near Herschel in South Africa. Her childhood was a harsh one: her father -
Giovanni Papini
Giovanni Papini was an Italian journalist, essayist, literary critic, poet, and novelist.
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Dino Campana
Dino Campana was an Italian visionary poet. His fame rests on his only published book of poetry, the Canti orfici ("Orphic Songs"), as well as his wild and erratic personality, including his ill-fated love affair with Sibilla Aleramo. He is often seen as an Italian example of a poète maudit. Dino Campana is generally represented as the “wild man” of Italian poetry. His Orphic Songs, written in 1914, represent a “romanticized” and idealized vision that lashed out against the bourgeoisie and contemporary attitudes of the Italians.
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Leszek Kołakowski
Distinguished Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analysis of Marxist thought, especially his acclaimed three-volume history, Main Currents of Marxism. In his later work, Kolakowski increasingly focused on religious questions. In his 1986 Jefferson Lecture, he asserted that "We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.”
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In Poland, Kołakowski is not only revered as a philosopher and historian of ideas, but also as an icon for opponents of communism. Adam Michnik has called Kołakowski "one of the most prominent creators of contemporary Polish culture".
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Irene Cordón i Solá-Sagales
Irene Cordón i Solà-Sagalés (Barcelona, 1972) és Doctora en Arqueologia i Història Antiga de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), amb una tesi sobre «Les dones de la reialesa egípcia de les Dinasties 0 a III (c.3100-2600 aC)». Va completar una estada d’un any a l’American University in Cairo (AUC) com a investigadora durant la seva recerca doctoral.
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Amb un Màster i un Postgrau en Estudis Orientals–Egiptologia de l’Institut d’Estudis del Pròxim Orient Antic de la UAB i una Llicenciatura en Dret de la Universitat de Barcelona (UB), la Dra. Cordón ha participat en congressos nacionals i internacionals d’Egiptologia, a més de contribuir al «Proyecto Kom el-Khamasín» a Saqqara Sud amb l’equip de la UAB. -
Guy Verhofstadt
Belgian Liberal Politician and European Federalist.
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He served as Prime Minister from 1999-2008 after defeating the Social-Democrats and Christian Democrats in the aftermath of the Agusta scandal and Dioxin Affair. He was the first liberal Prime Minister in Belgium since 1884.
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Alonso de Ercilla
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, commonly known as Alonso de Ercilla was a Spanish nobleman, soldier and epic poet, born in Madrid. While in Chile (1556–1563) he fought against the Araucanians (Mapuche), and there he began the epic poem La Araucana, considered one of the greatest Spanish historical poems. This heroic work in 37 cantos is divided into three parts, published in 1569, 1578, and 1589. It tells of the courageous insurrection of the Araucanians and also relates the history of Chile and of contemporary Spain.
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Alberto Mario Banti
Nato nel 1957. Ha conseguito un dottorato di ricerca in Storia e Civiltà all’Istituto Universitario Europeo di Fiesole. Dal 1992 insegna Storia contemporanea all’Università di Pisa. Fra i suoi libri: La nazione del Risorgimento, Il Risorgimento italiano, L’età contemporanea. Dalle rivoluzioni settecentesche all’imperialismo, L’età contemporanea. Dalla Grande Guerra a oggi, Sublime madre nostra. La nazione italiana dal Risorgimento al fascismo.
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Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Ramón Gómez de la Serna y Puig (July 3, 1888, Madrid - January 13, 1963, Buenos Aires) was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator. He was especially known for "Greguerías" - a short form of poetry that roughly corresponds to the one-liner in comedy. The Gregueria is especially able to grant a new and often humorous perspective.He strongly influenced surrealist film maker Luis Buñuel.
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Gómez de la Serna published over 90 works in all literary genres. In 1933, he was invited to Buenos Aires. He stayed there during the Spanish Civil War and the following Franco regime and died there. -
José Mattoso
JOSÉ MATTOSO nasceu em Leiria, a 22 de Janeiro de 1933. Professor catedrático jubilado, doutorou-se em História Medieval pela Universidade de Lovaina (Bélgica), em 1966, quando era monge beneditino do Mosteiro de Singeverga, onde permaneceu até 1969. Pediu a redução ao estado laical em 1970, iniciando então uma carreira universitária. Leccionou na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, entre 1971 e 1977, e, daí até 1990, na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Universidade de que foi também vice-reitor (1991-1995). Foi presidente do Instituto Português de Arquivos (1988-1990), director do Instituto de Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo (1996-1998) e Presidente do Conselho Científico das Ciências S
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Kārlis Zariņš
Kārlis Zariņš dzimis 1889. gada 9. decembrī (26. decembrī pēc vecā kalendāra) Liepājā, zirgu puiša Jorēna Žagara un mājkalpotājas Annas Žagares (dz. Rukuta) ģimenē. Žagaru (jeb Zāgaru) ģimene gan mainīja uzvārdu un kļuva par Zaļumiem, tomēr K. Zariņa kristības apliecībā viņa uzvārds ir Žagars. Viņam ir jaunāka māsa Tusnelda Līne un brālis Rūdolfs.
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Zariņa pirmā skola ir neliela Liepājas vācu privātskola iesācējiem, vēlāk – privāta vācu pirmmācības skola un krievu skola, kurā viņš mācās vien dažus mēnešus. 1898. gadā Zariņa ģimenes mājokli noposta ugunsgrēks un viņi pārceļas uz Pēterburgu. Sākumā ģimene apmetas pie radiem, vēlāk viņiem piešķir nelielu istabiņu psihiatriskās slimnīcas telpās, kur vecāki ir dabūjuši darbu.
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Rudolf Otto
German theologian, philosopher, and historian of religion, who exerted worldwide influence through his investigation of man’s experience of the holy. Das Heilige (1917; The Idea of the Holy, 1923) is his most important work.
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Alfred Rosenberg
Alfred Ernst Rosenberg was the head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and a war criminal during the Nazi era. A Baltic German, he was a theorist and an influential ideologue of the Nazi Party.
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Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart. He held several important posts in the Nazi government. He is considered one of the main authors of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, Lebensraum, abrogation of the Treaty of Versailles, and opposition to "degenerate" modern art.
He is also known for his rejection of Christianity, playing an important role in the development of Positive Christianity, which he intended to be transitional to a new Nazi faith.
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Otto Weininger
Otto Weininger was an Austrian philosopher. In 1903, he published the book Geschlecht und Charakter (Sex & Character) which gained popularity after his suicide, aged 23. The book is generally viewed as misogynistic & antisemitic in academic circles; however, for some reasons it continues to be held up as a great work of lasting genius & spiritual wisdom by others like Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Otto was born in Vienna as a son of the Jewish goldsmith Leopold Weininger & his wife Adelheid. After attending primary school & graduating from 2ndary school in 7/1898, he registered at the University of Vienna in 10/1898. He studied philosophy & psychology, taking natural science & medicine courses as well. He learned Greek, Latin, French & English early -
Charles Cros
Charles Cros or Émile-Hortensius-Charles Cros (October 1, 1842 – August 9, 1888) was a French poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude, France, 35 km to the East of Carcassonne.
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Cros was a well-regarded poet and humorous writer. As an inventor, he was interested in the fields of transmitting graphics by telegraph and making photographs in color, but he is perhaps best known for being the first person to conceive a method for reproducing recorded sound, an invention he named the Paleophone.
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Denis de Rougemont
Denys Louis de Rougemont (September 8, 1906 – December 6, 1985), known as Denis de Rougemont (French: [dəni də ʁuʒmɔ̃]), was a Swiss writer and cultural theorist who wrote in French. One of the non-conformists of the 1930s, he addressed the perils of totalitarianism from a Christian point of view. After the Second World War, he promoted European federalism.
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He studied at the University of Neuchâtel and in Vienna, and then moved to Paris in 1930. There he wrote for and edited various publications, associating with the personalist groupings and the non-conformists of the 1930s: with Emmanuel Mounier and Arnaud Dandieu, he founded the magazines Esprit and L'Ordre Nouveau, and he also founded a magazine on existential theology, Hic et Nunc.
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Hendrik Conscience
Henri (Hendrik) Conscience was een Vlaamse schrijver. Hij staat in Vlaanderen bekend als "De man die zijn volk leerde lezen".
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Henri (Hendrik) Conscience was a Flemish writer. In Flanders he is remembered as 'The man who taught his people to read'.
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Haralds Eldgasts
Literāro darbību sācis 1904.gadā žurnālā "Vērotājs". Publicējis apcerējumu "Janis Rozentāls" . Haralds Eldgasts kļuva populārs 1905. gadā ar programmatisko romānu "Zvaigžņotās naktis" , kurā grēksūdzes un pašanalīzes formā izteikti pretrunīgi personības intīmie pārdzīvojumi un mēģinājums atrisināt konfliktu starp materiālo un garīgo pasauli. Tas ir pirmais modernais romāns latviešu literatūrā. Romāna priekšvārdā H.Eldgasts izklāstīja savu izpratni par mākslu un tās attiecībām ar sabiedrību, uzsverot mākslas neatkarību un cilvēka dvēseles atklāsmi kā mākslinieka jaunrades vienīgo mērķu. Romāns izraisīja asu kritikas reakciju un ierindoja Eldgastu dekadentos. Arī vēlākajos darbos - lugā "Dēmona paradīzē" (1907), stāstu un tēlojumu krājumā "Vi
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Alberto Lozano Luque
Alberto Lozano Luque (Madrid, 1980) es ingeniero informático por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Desde 2012 trabaja en Bruselas en proyectos de software para la Comisión Europa.
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En 2006 ganó el primer premio de la II Edición de los Certámenes Culturales para Jóvenes CREA 06 en la modalidad de Microrrelato, en la categoría Senior. En 2015 se seleccionó un microrrelato suyo para el libro benéfico (A.F.A. Asociación de Familiares de personas con la enfermedad del Alzheimer y otras demencias de Castellón) Bocados Sabrosos 5, editado por ACEN (Asociación Cultural de Escritores/as Noveles). En junio de 2023 queda finalista del VII Premio de Escritura Breve de Diario de Madrid.
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈpiko della miˈrandola]; 24 February 1463 – 17 November 1494) was an Italian Renaissance philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy and magic against all comers, for which he wrote the famous Oration on the Dignity of Man, which has been called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance", and a key text of Renaissance humanism and of what has been called the “Hermetic Reformation."
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Roberto Piumini
Roberto Piumini è nato a Edolo, in provincia di Brescia, il 14 marzo 1947.
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Ha abitato a Edolo, Varese, Milano.
Nel 1970 si è laureato in Pedagogia all’Università Cattolica di Milano, con tesi su La persona del poeta in Emmanuel Mounier.
Ha frequentato la Scuola Superiore di Comunicazioni Sociali di Milano.
Dal 1967 al 1973 è stato insegnante di lettere in scuole medie e superiori della provincia di Varese.
Ha condotto numerosi corsi di dinamica espressiva, espressione corporea, scrittura poetica e teatrale.
È stato attore per tre anni con le compagnie Teatro Uomo di Milano e La Loggetta di Brescia.
Ha fatto esperienza per un anno come burattinaio.
Dal 1978 ha pubblicato moltissimi libri di fiabe, racconti corti e lunghi, romanzi, filastrocche, -
Edmund L. Gettier
Edmund L. Gettier III is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is best known for his short 1963 paper, "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?," which generated an enormous philosophical literature trying to respond to what became known as the Gettier problem.
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Luciano Amaral
LUCIANO AMARAL nasceu no Porto, a 16 de Maio de 1965. É licenciado em História (1988) e mestre em História dos Séculos XIX e XX (1993), pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, com a tese O País dos Caminhos que se Bifurcam: Política Agrária e Evolução da Agricultura Portuguesa durante o Estado Novo (1930-1954) e doutorado pelo Instituto Universitário Europeu de Florença (2003), com a tese How a Country Catches-Up: Economic Growth in Portugal in the Postwar Period (1950-1973).
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Presentemente, é Professor Auxiliar da Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa desde 2003, tendo sido Visiting Student da London School of Economics (1997) e Investigador do Instituto Universitário Europeu de Florença en