Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

male, deceased (1745)
cleric, satirist, Anglo-irish, Christian, Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford, pamphleteer…Horatian
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works...
Spurius Maelius

Spurius Maelius

male
wheat, ancient roman, roman, ancient rome, patrician, murder victim
Spurius Maelius, (d. 439 BC), a wealthy Roman plebeian, who during a severe famine bought up a large amount of wheat and sold it at a low price to...

Barthélémy Aneau

male, deceased (1565)
poet, French, lyon, emblem, Collège de la Trinité, 'Imagination poétique…Quintil Horatian
Barthélémy Aneau was a French poet and humanist. He is known for his novel "Alector, ou le Coq", and his work on emblems. He born in Bourges. He ta...