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Died	c.909
Subjects Of Study	Alfred

Charles Edward Russell

American writer

Laura E. Richards

American author

Charles Dudley Warner

American essayist

Ion of Chios

Greek poet

Sidney Colvin

English scholar

Marchette Chute

American author

Winston Churchill

prime minister of United Kingdom

Samuel Johnson

English author

Francis Bacon

British author, philosopher, and statesman

Virginia Woolf

British writer

Plutarch

Greek biographer

Frederick II

Holy Roman emperor

Petrarch

Italian poet

Stendhal

French author

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian poet and scholar

James Boswell

Scottish biographer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American author

Henry Adams

American historian

Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

French philosopher and humanist

Paul Verlaine

French poet