John Frampton

male
John Frampton was a 16th century English merchant from the West Country, who settled in Spain, was imprisoned and tortured by the Inquisition, and...
Esteban Manuel de Villegas

Esteban Manuel de Villegas

male, deceased (1669)
Esteban Manuel de Villegas, a Spanish poet, was born at Matute (Logrono). He matriculated at Salamanca on 20 November 1610, and challenged...
Ludolph van Ceulen

Ludolph van Ceulen

male, deceased (1610)
Ludolph van Ceulen (28 January 1540 - 31 December 1610) was a German mathematician. Born in Hildesheim, Germany. Like many Germans during the...
Jacob de Castro Sarmento

Jacob de Castro Sarmento

male, deceased (1761)
Jacob (Henriquez) de Castro Sarmento was a Portuguese physician, naturalist, poet and Deist. At the age of seventeen he entered the University of...
Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi

Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi

male, deceased (1564)
Rodolfo Pio da Carpi (February 22, 1500 - May 2, 1564) was an Italian Cardinal, humanist and patron of the arts. He formed a great library and was...

José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia

male, deceased (1840)
Dr. José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco was the first leader of Paraguay following its independence from Spain. He ran the country with no ou...
Jeronimo Zurita Y Castro

Jeronimo Zurita Y Castro

male, deceased (1580)
Jeronimo (or Gerónimo) Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian, was born at Zaragoza, and studied at Alcalá de Henares under the celebrated Hellenist, He...

Martin Of Arles

male, deceased (1521)
Martinus de Arles y Andosilla (1451?-1521) was doctor of theology and canon in Pamplona and archdeacon of Aibar, author of a "tractatus de...

Pier Angelo Manzolli

male
Pier Angelo Manzo(l)li was an Italian author, born about the end of the fifteenth century at La Stellata, near Ferrara. He is identified with the...
Sousa Caldas

Sousa Caldas

male, deceased (1814)
António Pereira Sousa Caldas, was a Brazilian poet and author. He studied mathematics at the University at sixteen. At some point he developed an i...