German satirist, poet, professor of law, and imperial official. Brandt's Das Narrenschiff was the most popular literary work of fifteenth-century Germany.

Appears as an alternate spelling of Bradshaigh.

née Dorothy Bellingham; frequent correspondent with Samuel Richardson and others; sister to Lady Echlin. She married Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 1699-1770 (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) in 1731. In her essay on Richardson, Anna Letitia Barbauld occasionally spells the name "Bradshaw."

See Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl of.

Younger brother to Roger Boyle, earl of Orrery, Robert Boyle was primarily a scientist. His Martyrdom of Theodora and of Didymus was printed in 1687.

London engraver, publisher, and printseller; the various series he sponsored included a gallery of paintings of subjects from Shakespeare, which first opened in 1789 and expanded in subsequent years.

Author of Fourteen Sonnets (1789), admired by the major Lake School authors.

Judge and unsuccessful political aspirant, essayist, poet, and critic, but most famous for The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D (1791), Boswell established the modern biographical focus on the intimacies of private character through this famous biography and his preface defending his methods. That publication was preceded by The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785), which appeared shortly after Johnson's death and aroused reader enthusiasm for a portrait that includes personal foibles as well as venerable accomplishments.

Illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, he served in the Italian Wars. Though he was able to ascend to power, he was not able to solidify and retain it, thus inspiring Niccolo Machiavelli to write The Prince.

Greek god of the north wind.