Autore: Anthony Martinez

Arthur Conan Doyle, in full Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, (born May 22, 1859, Edinburgh, Scotlanddied July 7, 1930, Crowborough, Sussex, England), Scottish writer best known for his creation of th …

English poet Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the unfinished work, The Canterbury Tales. It is considered one of the greatest poetic works in English.Synopsis Poet Geoffrey Chaucer was born circa 1340 in Londo …

Victor Hugo, in full Victor-Marie Hugo, (born February 26, 1802, Besanon, Francedied May 22, 1885, Paris), poet, novelist, and dramatist who was the most important of the French Romantic writers. Tho …

Percy Bysshe Shelley, (born Aug. 4, 1792, Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, Eng.died July 8, 1822, at sea off Livorno, Tuscany [Italy]), English Romantic poet whose passionate search for personal lo …

Sophocles, (born c. 496 bce, Colonus, near Athens [Greece]died 406, Athens), with Aeschylus and Euripides, one of classical Athens’ three great tragic playwrights. The best known of his 123 dramas is …

Virgil, also spelled Vergil, Latin in full Publius Vergilius Maro, (born October 15, 70 bce, Andes, near Mantua [Italy]died September 21, 19 bce, Brundisium), Roman poet, best known for his national …

Ambrose Bierce was an American newspaperman, satirist, and short story writer. He disappeared in Mexico in 1914 and his final fate is unknown.Synopsis Ambrose Bierce was born on June 24, 1842 in Meig …

Albrecht Durer (14711528) was probably the greatest graphical artist of the Northern Renaissance. He is the first to have elevated the self-portrait to a high art form, and was known for his fascinat …

It is possible to reconstruct only the sketchiest biography of Euripides. His mother’s name was Cleito; his father’s name was Mnesarchus or Mnesarchides. One tradition states that his mother was a gr …

Dante’s Divine Comedy, a landmark in Italian literature and among the greatest works of all medieval European literature, is a profound Christian vision of humankind’s temporal and eternal destiny. O …

John Donne was born in 1572 in London, England. He is known as the founder of the Metaphysical Poets, a term created by Samuel Johnson, an eighteenth-century English essayist, poet, and philosopher. …

Aeschylus was born at the religious center of Eleusis. His father, Euphorion, was of a noble Athenian family. In 499 B.C. Aeschylus produced his first tragedy, and in 490 he is reputed to have taken …

Sir Philip Sidney, (born November 30, 1554, Penshurst, Kent, Englanddied October 17, 1586, Arnhem, Netherlands), Elizabethan courtier, statesman, soldier, poet, and patron of scholars and poets, cons …

William James, (born Jan. 11, 1842, New York, N.Y., U.S.died Aug. 26, 1910, Chocorua, N.H.), American philosopher and psychologist, a leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism and of the psy …

Jane Barker (1652 1732) was an English poet and novelist of the early 18th century. The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia (1713) was considered her most successful work. A staunch Jacobite, she followed K …

James Joyce was an Irish, modernist writer who wrote in a ground-breaking style that was known both for its complexity and explicit content.Synopsis James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin …

Sun Tzu is known as a Chinese military strategist, Taoist philosopher, and general in the 6th century BCE who is widely recognized for his work The Art of War, a treatise on military strategy (also k …

For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by ataraxiapeace and freedom from fearand aponiathe absence of painand by living a self-sufficient life s …

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