Tag: poet

Virgil

(70 BC–19 BC) Publius Vergilius Maro Works: • Aeneidos (Latin) ◊ The Aeneid (English) • Eclogae (Latin) ◊ The Bucolics and Eclogues (English) • Georgicon (Latin) ◊ The Georgics (English) Quotes: • Virgil: Quotations Virgil in Art: Blake, William (1757-1827) The Pastorals of Virgil 1821 Princeton University Art…

Dante Alighieri

(1265–1321) Works: • De Monarchia (English) • Divina Commedia (Italian) ◊ Divine Comedy (English, Cary’s Translation) ◊ Divine Comedy (English, Longfellow’s Translation) • Il Convito (The Banquet) (English) • La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (English, Rossetti’s Translation) Quotes: • Dante Alighieri: Quotations Dante…

Baldassare Castiglione

(1478–1529) Baldassare Castiglione in Art: Raffaello (1483-1520) Baldassarre Castiglione 1514–1515 Musée du Louvre, Paris     See also: • Diplomats | Humanists | Poets | Writers

Pietro Bembo

(1470–1547) Pietro Bembo in Art: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto del Cardinale Pietro Bembo 1539–1540 National Gallery of Art, Washington     See also: • Bishops | Cardinals | Humanists | Philologists | Poets | Writers

Louisa May Alcott

(1832–1888) Works: • A Garland for Girls (English) • A Modern Cinderella (English) • A Modern Mephistopheles (English) • A Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School (English) • An Old-Fashioned Girl (English) • Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, Volume…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(1749–1832) Works: • Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life (English) • Belagerung von Mainz (German) • Βέρθερος (Greek) • Briefe aus der Schweiz (German) • Briefe Schillers und Goethes an A. W. Schlegel (German) • Briefe von Goethe…

Horace

(65 BC–8 BC) Quintus Horatius Flaccus Works: • Ars Poetica (Latin) • Carmen Saeculare (Latin) • Carmina (Latin) • Epistula Ad Pisones, De Arte Poetica (Latin) ◊ The Art of Poetry: an Epistle to the Pisos (English) • Epistulae (Latin) • Epodi (Latin) •…

Miguel de Unamuno

(1864–1936) Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo Works: • Abel Sánchez (1917) • Amor y Pedagogía (1902) • Del sentimiento trágico de la vida (1913) ◊ Tragic Sense Of Life (English) • La Tía Tula (1921) • La voz de la…

Miguel de Cervantes

(1547–1616) Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Works: • Don Quijote (1605) ◊ Älykkään ritarin Don Quijote de la Manchan elämänvaiheet (Finnish) ◊ Don Quichot van La Mancha (Dutch) ◊ Don Quixote (English) ◊ L’ingénieux chevalier Don Quichotte de la Manche (French) • Novelas…