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61Pietro Della Valle — (April 2, 1586– April 21, 1652) was an Italian traveler in Asia. BiographyPietro della Valle was born in Rome from a wealthy noble family. His early life was divided between the pursuits of literature and arms. He was a cultivated man, who knew… …
62Peter of Eboli — or Petrus de Ebulo [In current medieval Latin; more correctly Petrus Eburensis .] (flourished ca. 1196 ndash;1220) was a didactic versifier and chronicler who wrote in Latin.A monk from Eboli (Campania, then part of the Kingdom of Naples), Peter… …
63Parasitaster, or The Fawn — is an early Jacobean play, written by the dramatist and satirist John Marston in 1604, and performed by the Children of the Queen s Revels in the Blackfriars Theatre.The play was entered into the Stationers Register on March 12, 1606, and… …
64John Robertson (minister) — John Robertson, (1768 1843) was Minister of Cambuslang from 1810 until his death. He was responsible for that Parish’s entry in the Second Statistical Account of Scotland dated 1836, though he did not write it himself. (The text modestly… …
65Augustin Nadal — The abbé Augustin Nadal (1659 7 August 1741) was the author of plays, through the failure of which he became the butt of a withering public reply from Voltaire that has rendered the abbé immortal.He was born in Poitiers. Having finished his… …
66Carmen de Prodicione Guenonis — ( Song of the Treachery of Ganelon ) is an anonymous poem in medieval Latin, written in the first half of the 12th century. Composed in elegiac couplets by an unskilled versifier, it is a version of the legendary history of the Battle of… …
67Cyril Alington — Cyril Argentine Alington (22 October 1872 – 16 May 1955) was an English educationalist, scholar, cleric, and prolific author. He was the headmaster of both Shrewsbury School and Eton College. He also served as chaplain to King George V and as… …
68Traian Demetrescu — Traian Rafael Radu Demetrescu Born December 5, 1866(1866 12 05) Craiova, Principality of Romania Died April 9, 1896(18 …
69Mariamne (Nadal play) — Mariamne is a 1725 French tragedy by Augustin Nadal based around the Herodian dynasty. Nadal was encouraged to produce the play after his rival Voltaire s play on the same story had failed after only one performance the previous year. However, at …
70Poeta Saxo — The anonymous Saxon poet known as Poeta Saxo, who composed the medieval Latin Annales de gestis Caroli magni imperatoris libri quinque ( Annals of the Deeds of Emperor Charlemagne in Five Books ) was probably a monk of Sankt Gallen or possibly… …
