- Tacitus
Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (ca. 56 - ca. 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works-the "Annals" and the "Histories"-examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those that reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors. - Livius Andronicus
Lucius Livius Andronicus (280/260 BC?-200 BC?), was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet who produced the first Roman dramatic work and translated many Greek works into Latin. He is regarded as the father of Roman drama and epic poetry. Andronicus was probably born in the Greek colony of Tarentum (now Taranto, Italy), and was made a slave to a Livian noble. After being freed and adopting the name of his former master, Andronicus became the first Greek teacher in Rome. - Nicholas Ostler
Nicholas Ostler is a British scholar and author. He is also the author of the 2005 book "Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World", which documents the spread of language throughout human history. Ostler studied at University of Oxford, where he received degrees in Greek, Latin, philosophy, and economics. He later studied under Noam Chomsky at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. in linguistics and Sanskrit. - Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, 1466/1469 - July 12, 1536) was a Dutch humanist and theologian. Desiderius Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a "pure" Latin style. Although he remained a Roman Catholic throughout his lifetime, he was critical of what he considered the excesses of the Roman Catholic Church. - William Smith
Sir William Smith (1813 - 1893), English lexicographer, was born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents. He was originally destined for a theological career, but instead was articled to a solicitor. In his spare time he taught himself classics, and when he entered University College London he carried off both the Greek and Latin prizes. He was entered at Gray's Inn in 1830, but gave up his legal studies for a post at University College School, … - Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
Dionysius of Halicarnassus was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus. - Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis, known in English as Martial, was a Latin poet from Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) best known for his twelve books of "Epigrams", published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In these short, witty poems he cheerfully satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. - De Viris Illustribus
"De viris illustribus" is a collection of two, written in the Vulgate Latin, by the 14th century Italian author Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca). There is as yet no English translation, however Harvard University has it under contract to appear in the I Tatti Renaissance Library sometime in 2007. - Archbishop Of York
The Archbishop of York is the metropolitan bishop of the Province of York, and is the junior of the two archbishops of the Church of England, after the Archbishop of Canterbury. Since 5 October 2005, the incumbent is the Most Reverend John Sentamu; he signs himself "Sentamu Ebor:" (In Uganda it is uncommon to have family names (such as Smith), children have given names, one often Christian and the other a traditional descriptive name, … - Beatus Rhenanus
Beatus Rhenanus, the "Rerum Germanicarum Libri III" (1531), and editions of Velleius Paterculus (1522), based on a manuscript he discovered. He also wrote works on Tacitus (1519), Livy (1522), and a nine-volume work on his friend Erasmus (1540-1541). - Hildegard Of Bingen
Selected English translations of Hildegard *Atherton, Mark, trans. "Hildegard of Bingen: Selected Writings". London: Penguin, 2001. *Baird, Joseph L. and Radd K. Ehrman, trans. "The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen". Vol. I. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. *—, trans. "The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen". Vol. II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. *—, trans. "The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen". Vol. III. - Father Reginald Foster
Father Reginald Foster is a Catholic priest and friar of the order of Discalced Carmelites. He is an American, having been born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 14 1939. He currently works in the "Latin Letters" section of the Secretariat of State in the Vatican. This section is the successor to the historical "Briefs to Princes." Father Foster is the Pope's principal latinist. Foster's office at the Secretariat occupies the space of his predecessor's kitchen. - El Cid
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, while the title "El Campeador" (the champion) was granted by his Christian admirers and derives from the Latin "campi doctor". These titles reflected the great esteem El Cid had among both Moors and Christians, … - Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler, FRS (30 January 1774 - 4 December 1839), was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster at Shrewsbury, and Bishop of Lichfield. His grandson was Samuel Butler, noted author. He was born at Kenilworth. He was educated at Rugby School, and in 1792 went to St John's College, Cambridge. Butler's classical career was a brilliant one. He obtained three of Sir William Browne's medals, for the Latin (1792) and Greek (1793, 1794) odes, … - Garcilaso de la Vega
Garcilaso de la Vega, was the prototypical Spanish "Renaissance man," the soldier-poet who was the most influential (though not the first or the only) poet to introduce Italian Renaissance verse forms, poetic techniques and themes to Spain. His exact birth date is unknown, but estimations by scholars put his year of birth between 1498 and 1503. Garcilaso was born in the Spanish city of Toledo. - Gabriel Harvey
Gabriel Harvey (c. 1545 - 1630) was an English writer. The eldest son of a ropemaker from Saffron Walden, Essex, he matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1566, and in 1570 was elected fellow of Pembroke Hall. Here he formed a lasting friendship with Edmund Spenser, who may have been his pupil. Harvey was a notable scholar, though his reputation suffered from his quarrel with Thomas Nashe. Henry Morley, writing in the "Fortnightly Review" (March 1869), … - Nescio
"Nescio", Latin for "I don't know", was the pseudonym of the Dutch writer Jan Hendrik Frederik Grönloh, born June 22, 1882 in Amsterdam and died July 25, 1961 in Hilversum, both in the Netherlands. Grönloh was a businessman by profession; as Nescio he is mainly remembered for the three novellas De Uitvreter (The Sponger), Titaantjes (Young Titans) and Dichtertje (Little Poet). His reputation as an important Dutch writer was only established after his death. - Charles The Fat
Charles the Fat (Latin: "Carolus Pinguis"; 13 June 839 - 13 January 888) was the King of Alemannia from 876, King of Italy from 879, Holy Roman Emperor (as Charles III) from 881, King of East Francia from 882, and King of West Francia from 884. He was deposed in East Francia, Lotharingia, and possibly Italy (there the records are not clear) in 887. He died just a few weeks after his deposition in January 888. - Charles The Simple
Charles III (September 17, 879 - October 7, 929), called the Simple (contemporary Latin: "simplex", meaning "straightforward, uncomplicated", not "dimwitted, stupid"), was a member of the Carolingian dynasty who ruled as King of France (or Western Francia) from 893 to 922/923. He was the posthumous son of King Louis the Stammerer and his third wife Adelaide of Paris. Charles first married Frederonne who died in 917 and then Eadgifu, … - Janus Pannonius
Janus Pannonius (Latin: "Janus Pannonius", Hungarian: "János Csezmicei" or "Kesencei", Croatian: "Ivan Česmički"; 1434 - 1472) was a Croatian-Hungarian humanist, latinist poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs. He was the only truly significant poet of the Renaissance in the Kingdom of Hungary and one of the better-known figures of Humanist poetry in Europe. He was born in a small village near the Drava river in a corner of Slavonia. - Filip Callimachus
Filip Callimachus or Callimach (Latin: "Philippus Callimachus Experiens", born Filippo Buonaccorsi (1437 - November 1 1496) was a Polish-Italian humanist and writer. - Walter Of Châtillon
Walter of Châtillon was a 12th-century French writer and theologian who wrote in the Latin language. He studied under Stephen of Beauvais and at the University of Paris. It was probably during his student years that he wrote a number of Latin poems in the Goliardic manner that found their way into the "Carmina Burana" collection. During his lifetime, however, he was more esteemed for a long Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great, the "Alexandreis, … - Virgilius Maro Grammaticus
Virgilius Maro Grammaticus (Virgil the Grammarian) is one of the most enigmatic of all medieval writers, author of two pseudo-grammatical texts known as the "Epitomae" and the "Epistolae". It is unknown exactly when or where he was active: in the eleventh and twelfth centuries he was known to Abbo of Fleury and others as Virgil of Toulouse, and subsequent scholars have tried to attribute him to Spain, the Basque Country and Gaul. - Antonio Veneziano
Antonio Veneziano (Monreale, 1543 - Castellammare del Golfo, 19 August 1593) was a Sicilian poet who wrote mainly in Sicilian. He is considered among the greatest poets who wrote in Sicilian, which include Giovanni Meli, Domenico Tempio and Nino Martoglio. He is perhaps the first major figure in Sicilian literature following the Sicilian School which predates him by three centuries. During his life time, he was well known for his poetry both within Sicily and far beyond. - Fulcher Of Chartres
Fulcher of Chartres (born around 1059 in or near Chartres) was a chronicler of the First Crusade. He wrote in Latin. - Francis Cardinal George
"His Eminence" Francis Eugene Cardinal George, OMI, Ph.D, S.T.D. (born January 16, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the Archbishop of Chicago and was elevated to Cardinal by Pope John Paul II. The Cardinal is the vice-president of the conference of American bishops, and is in charge of the second largest U.S. diocese—in terms of Catholic population—after Los Angeles. - John Argyropoulos
John Argyropoulos was a Byzantine lecturer, philosopher and humanist during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Born in 1415 in Constantinople. He translated Greek philosophical and theological works into Latin besides producing rhetorical and theological works in his own. He divided his time between Italy and Constantinople. When Constantinople fell in 1453 he left it for the Peloponnesus and in 1456 took refuge in Italy. - Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri (born Ioanna Mouskouri on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece) is a singer of Greek origin. She was known as Nana to her friends and family as a child. She recorded many of her songs in many different languages, including Greek, French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Portuguese and Japanese among others. She is noted for her trademark squarish black-rimmed eyeglasses and straight black hair parted in the middle, … - Luigi Miraglia
Luigi (or Gigiotto) Miraglia (born in Naples on October 28, 1965) is a very well-known Italian latinist and pedagogue. - George Of Trebizond
George of Trebizond (1395 - August 12, 1484), Greek philosopher and scholar, one of the pioneers of the revival of letters in the Western world, was born on the island of Crete, and derived his surname Trapezuntios from the fact that his ancestors were from Trebizond. At what period he came to Italy is not certain; according to some accounts he was summoned to Venice about 1430 to act as amanuensis to Francesco Barbaro, … - Eugenius
Eugenius of Palermo (also Eugene, Latin: "Eugenius Siculus", Italian: "Eugenio da Palermo"; circa 1130 - 1202) was an "amiratus" (admiral) of the Kingdom of Sicily in the late twelfth century. He was of Greek origin, but born in Palermo, and an educated background, for he was "most learned in Greek and Arabic, and not unskilled in Latin." By the time of his admiralcy, the educated, multilingual Greek or Arab administrator was becoming rare in Sicily. - Commodianus
Commodianus was a Christian Latin poet, who flourished about A.D. 250. The only ancient writers who mention him are Gennadius, presbyter of Massilia (end of 5th century), in his "De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis", and Pope Gelasius in "De libris recipiendis et non recipiendis", in which his works are classed as "Apocryphi", probably on account of certain heterodox statements contained in them. Commodianus is supposed to have been an African. - Guido Delle Colonne
Guido delle Colonne (in Latin Guido de Columnis or de Columna) was an early 13th century Sicilian writer, living at Messina, who wrote in Latin. He is the author of a prose narrative of the Trojan War entitled "Historia destructionis Troiae" ("History of the destruction of Troy"). Dante ("De vulgari eloquentia" 2.5) named Guido as a poet in the vernacular, and in fact five poems by him in Italian survive. - Jacopo Sannazaro
Jacopo Sannazaro or Sannazzaro (1458 - April 27, 1530) was a Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples. He wrote easily in Latin, in Italian and Neapolitan, but is best remembered for his humanist classic "Arcadia", a masterwork that illustrated the possibilities of poetical prose in Italian, and instituted the theme of "Arcadia", representing an idyllic land, in European literature: see the theme Et In Arcadia Ego. - Albert Of Aix
Albert of Aix-la-Chapelle or Albert of Aachen (floruit circa AD 1100), historian of the First Crusade, was born during the later part of the 11th century, and afterwards became canon and custos of the church of Aachen. Nothing else is known of his life except that he was the author of a "Historia Hierosolymitanae expeditionis", or "Chronicon Hierosolymitanum de bello sacro", a work in Latin in twelve books, written between 1125 and 1150. - Charles Edwin Bennett
Charles Edwin Bennett (April 6, 1858-1921) was an American classical scholar and the Goldwin Smith Professor of Latin at Cornell University. He is best remembered for his book "New Latin Grammar", first published in 1895 and still in print today. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Bennett graduated from Brown University in 1878 and also studied at Harvard (1881-1882) and in Germany (1882-1884). He taught in secondary schools in Florida (1878-1879), … - Henry John Roby
Henry John Roby (August 20, 1830 - 2 January 1915), was an English classical scholar and writer on Roman law, and a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP). Born at Tamworth, he was educated at St John's College, Cambridge (senior classic, 1853; fellow, 1854). From 1866 to 1868 he was professor of jurisprudence at University College, London, and from 1872 to 1874 commissioner of endowed schools. - James Bruce
James Bruce (La: "Jacobus de Brois"; († 1447)) was a 15th century cleric who was bishop of Dunkeld, Chancellor of Scotland, and bishop of Glasgow. He was the son of one Robert Bruce, a middling landowner in Clackmannanshire. He was rector of Kilmany (Fife), and Archdeacon of Dunkeld. In 1441, on the death of Alexander de Lawedre, bishop-elect of Dunkeld, James Bruce was elected as bishop. He was consecrated at Dunfermline on February 4 1442. - Dion Fortune
Violet Mary Firth Evans, born Violet Mary Firth (December 6 1890 - 1946) and better known as Dion Fortune, was a British occultist and author. Her pseudonym was inspired by her family motto "Deo, non fortuna" (Latin for "God, not fate") - Gervase Markham
Gervase (or Jervis) Markham (1568?-February 1637) was an English poet and writer, best known for his work "The English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman" first published in London in 1615. He was the third son of Sir Robert Markham of Gotham, Nottinghamshire and was born probably in 1568. He was a soldier of fortune in the Low Countries, …
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