Tolomei, Claudio, 1492-1555
Italian linguist and poet. His Il Polito was published in 1525, Versi et regole de la nuova poesia toscana in 1539, and Il Cesano in 1555. De le lettere di M. Claudio Tolomei lib. sette appeared in 1547.
Italian linguist and poet. His Il Polito was published in 1525, Versi et regole de la nuova poesia toscana in 1539, and Il Cesano in 1555. De le lettere di M. Claudio Tolomei lib. sette appeared in 1547.
Tobin wrote plays for many years and struggled to get them produced. His most famous play, The Honey Moon (1805), was his first to be accepted for performance. However, he died soon after and did not get to see The Honey Moon debut. Tobin was known for taking plots from other plays for his own, and he became more well-known posthumously, as previously-rejected plays were reevaluated and staged.
Tiziano Vecellio, commonly known as "Titian," is considered to be the greatest Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. A phenomenally versatile painter, Titian's artistic methods influenced generations of Western artists.
A well-educated Irish poet known for Psyche; or the Legend of Love (1805), a rewrite of the legend of Psyche and Eros which reverses the male's objectification of the female. Psyche was successful and received tributes from Felicia Hemans and Thomas Moore.
Poet, translator, friend of Joseph Addison, and occasional contributor of essays on pastoral poetry to the Guardian, Tickell was also connected by marriage to Lady Echlin's circle. Tickell's elegy on Addison was thought by many of his contemporaries to be one of the finest in the language.
Albius Tibullus is a first century BCE Latin poet and elegist. The Library of Congress lists his birth date between 60 and 50 BC; death date between 19 and 17 BC.
Scottish poet James Thomson's nature and landscape poem The Seasons (1730) was much revered by his contemporaries and influenced Romantic period poetic depiction of nature. Thomson published several republican political poems, including the unsuccessful Liberty (1735-1736). Other works include The Castle of Indolence (1748), a Spenserian allegory; and five dramatic tragedies: The Tragedy of Sophonisba (1730), Agamemnon (1738); Edward and Eleonora (1739), Tancred and Sigismunda (1745), and Coriolanus (1749).
Benjamin Thompson was an English dramatist. He saw little success with his original works, but successfully translated many plays, including The Stranger (1798) by August von Kotzebue.
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his assassination in 1170 in Canterbury Cathedral on the orders of King Henry II. Soon after his death, he was canonized by Pope Alexander III and is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Catholic and Anglican Churches. His shrine at Canterbury is the object of the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Primarily a travel writer, Thicknesse had an early career as a military officer during a Maroon rebellion in Jamaica. After the deaths of his first two wives, he married the singer Ann Ford, thereafter known as Ann Thicknesse.