(c.404 BC-c.323 BC) Diogenes the Cynic Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός Diogenes in Art: Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Diogène 1860 Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Born c.404 BC Sinope (Turkey) Died c.323 BC Corinth (Greece) Occupation Philosopher
Diogenes
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Allegoria della Prudenza (early 1680s)
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Allegoria della Prudenza (Allegory of Prudence) early 1680s Oil on canvas, 99.7 x 95.2 cm National Gallery, London This modello, or detailed oil study, is one of a group of 12 that Giordano made in preparation for the ceiling frescoes…
Montesquieu
(1689–1755) Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu Works: • Esprit des lois (French) • Le temple de Gnide (French) • Lettres persanes, tome I (French) • Lettres persanes, tome II (French) • Persialaisia kirjeitä (Finnish) Born…
Baruch Spinoza
Benedictus de Spinoza (1632–1677) Works: • A Theologico-Political Treatise, Part 1 (English) • A Theologico-Political Treatise, Part 2 (English) • A Theologico-Political Treatise, Part 3 (English) • A Theologico-Political Treatise, Part 4 (English) • Ethica (Dutch) • Ethics (English) •…
Giambattista Vico
(1668–1744) Giovan Battista Vico Works: • Principes de la Philosophie de l’Histoire traduits de la ‘Scienza nuova’ (French) Born June 23 1668 Napoli (Italia) Died January 23 1744 Napoli (Italia) Occupation Historian Humanist Occupation Jurist Philosopher Occupation Rhetorician Writer
Benedetto Croce
(1866–1952) Works: • Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic (English) • Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille (English) • Historical materialism and the economics of Karl Marx (English) • Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept (English) • The…
Giacomo Leopardi
(1798–1837) Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi Works: • Essays and Dialogues (English) • I Canti (Italian) • The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi (English) • The Poems of Leopardi (English) Born June 29 1798 Recanati (Italia) Died…
Niccolò Machiavelli
(1469–1527) Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli Works: • Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius (English) • History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy (English) • La mandragola, La Clizia, Belfagor (Italian) • Machiavelli, Volume I (English)…
John Milton
(1608–1674) Works: • Areopagitica (English) • An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton (English) • L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas (English) • Le Paradis Perdu (French) • Milton’s Comus (English) • Minor Poems (English) •…
Geoffrey Chaucer
(c.1343–1400) Works: • Chaucer for Children: A Golden Key (English) • Chaucer’s Translation of Boethius’s “De Consolatione Philosophiae” (English) • Chaucer’s Works, Volume 1 (English) • Chaucer’s Works, Volume 2 (English) • Chaucer’s Works, Volume 3 (English) • Chaucer’s Works,…