An Italian neoclassical sculptor.

As the author of the epic poem Os Lusíadas (1572), Camões is regarded as Portugal's great national poet. The poem describes the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India. Some of its details may have been partly based on Camões's own travels in the east.

Canning had been a conservative British politician since the early 1790s, serving, among other posts, as foreign minister before rising to Prime Minister in April 1827. In addition to his memorable political speeches, Mr. Canning wrote for both the Anti-Jacobin Review, which he co-founded, and the Quarterly Review. His health failed soon after his Prime Minister appointment, and he died in August of the same year.

Disappearing on Jan 1, 1753, Canning reemerged after 28 days with allegations that she had been abducted and held prisoner in a failed attempt to coerce her to become a prostitute. As Justice of the Peace for Middlesex and Westminster, Henry Fielding heard Canning's accusations, and convinced of her veracity, Fielding issued a warrant for her abusers’ arrest.

Prominent Roman painter of classical and clerical subjects.

A Scottish romantic poet, biographer, historian, literary critic, and, from 1821-1830, editor of New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Thomas Campbell was recognized most widely for the poem The Pleasures of Hope (1799) and the seven-volume survey of canon poets Specimens of the British Poets (1819). and

Born Elizabeth Gunning, Elizabeth married James Hamilton, sixth duke of Hamilton, in 1752. After his death in 1758 she married a professional soldier, John Campbell, who succeeded to his father’s title of Duke of Argyll. Elizabeth served for over two decades as lady in waiting to Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, for which services she was honored in 1776 with the title 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon suo jure.

English antiquary, topographer, and king-of-arms. Camden is best remembered for his Britannia (1586), a pioneering topographical survey of Great Britain, and Annales (1615), the first detailed account of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, which became the basis for most later accounts of Elizabeth's reign.

The best known work of this poet is The Scribleriad (1751). He contributed to the World between 1753 and 1756.

French theologian and Protestant reformer responsible for the doctrine known as Calvinism. After publishing his Institution de la religion in 1536, he moved to Geneva, where he published sermons, commentaries, and letters developing and refining the doctrine of predestination, sin, and grace.