French statesman and financial minister to Henry IV of France.

General and stateman, he rose to become dictator of Rome from 82 to 80 BCE.

Member of the important Florentine family Strozzi and the elder of a father and son of the same names, both of whom were prolific authors of madrigals.

See Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England.

Strada's Prolusiones academicæ (1617) were published in numerous editions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Joseph Addison adapted sections into English prose for the Spectator and the Guardian.

Controversial Dutch theologian and translator.

Bishop of Bath and Wales and fellow of Christ's College at Cambridge. Still was long presumed to be the author of Grammer Gurton's Needle, though evidence has since suggested William Stevenson as its true author.

Son of a mathematician, Stewart became a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, teaching at the University of Edinburgh on mathematics and moral and political philosophy, and through his lectures and writings profoundly influencing many British literary and political figures. He was joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

English clergyman and likely playwright of Grammer Gurton's Needle, a play of disputed authorship from the beginnings of English comedy.

Sterne's two most important novels, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1760-67) and The Sentimental Journey (1768), mark him as a major figure in the history of both sentimental and experimental fiction.