Richard Bentley: Quick Facts

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Born	January 27, 1662 • England
Died	July 14, 1742 (aged 80) • Cambridge • England
Notable Works	“Dissertation on the Letters of Phalaris” • “Epistola ad Joannem Millium” • “Tusculanae disputationes”
Subjects Of Study	Ancient Greek literature • Latin literature • textual criticism

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Richard Bentley, detail of an oil painting by James Thornhill, 1710; in Trinity College, Cambridge.

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Johann Albert Fabricius

German scholar

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Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

Opitz, Martin

Martin Opitz

German poet

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Julius Caesar Scaliger

French scholar

Justus Lipsius, oil painting by an unknown artist, 1585; in the Musee Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp

Justus Lipsius

Belgian scholar

Furnivall, pencil sketch by Charles Haslewood Shannon, c. 1911; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Frederick James Furnivall

British scholar

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Quintilian

Roman rhetorician

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Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Theodore Beza

Theodore Beza

French theologian

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Maximus Planudes

Byzantine scholar and theologian

F.W. Ritschl, engraving

F.W. Ritschl

German scholar

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Aristophanes Of Byzantium

Greek critic and grammarian

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Manuel Moschopoulos

Byzantine grammarian

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Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

German scholar

Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.

Samuel Johnson

English author

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Portrait of poet Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

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Sir Leslie Stephen

British critic

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Thomas Rymer

English critic