Marcus Tullius Cicero

On the Death of Sir Isaac Newton dwells on the honorific funeral which Tollet, as a woman, would not have attended. On the analogy of Cicero 's restoration of the tomb of Archimedes , she...

Petrarch contributed importantly to the revival of learning when in the chapter library of Verona he discovered a manuscript containing letters by Cicero , whose text had been lost for centuries.

The letters of EM 's youth—to the Duchess of Portland and to her sister Sarah Scott —are sparkling, irreverent, and inventive. Some of these were conveyed via Elizabeth Elstob . Her early claim about the...

This novel has an epigraph from John Ford 's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life. Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...

Her editor Leah Marcus has emphasized that QE was a pioneer of the plain and pithy style in English called Senecan or Tacitean , in contrast to the elaborate, high-flown Ciceronian style which generally held...

The essays include Samuel Pepys and Francis Bacon , Lord Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, A Curiosity of Literature not Mentioned by Isaac Disraeli and Servants. The first, despite its title, is...

The subject-matter of her contributions was dictated and limited by her editor, Dunbar T. Wint , who did not believe that women had any place in the political or intellectual arena. UM nevertheless found opportunities...

It was ten years since she had sketched out parts of this book, as what she then called a kind of second volume of The Human Condition. Its own third volume, Judging...