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Born 1530 • Leominster • England
Died July 13, 1566 (aged 36) • Paris • France
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
Pembroke, Mary Herbert, countess of
Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke
English translator
William Painter
English author
Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet
English poet and translator
Sir John Harington
English author
Terence Tiller
British writer
Gustave Doré: Dante, guided by Virgil, observes those guilty of simony in the eighth circle of Hell
Henry Francis Cary
British biographer
Richard Carew
English scholar
Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Italian author
Elio Vittorini
Italian author
John Ciardi
American poet and critic
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky
American poet and critic
Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet.
Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet
American author
Paolo Antonio Rolli
Italian author
Anna Banti
Italian author and critic
Samuel Putnam
American editor and author
Giorgio Manganelli
Italian author
Attilio Bertolucci
Italian poet, literary critic and translator