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Joseph Glanvill

(1636 - 1680)

English writer and essayist William Hazlitt.

William Hazlitt

(1778 - 1830)

Héloïse

(c. 1098 - 1164)

Ibn al-Muqaffa

(c. 721 - c. 756)

Onyinye Ihezukwu

Detail of mural featuring Jacobus de Voragine, archbishop of Genoa and chronicler.

Jacobus de Voragine

(c. 1230 - 1298)

Eric Jager

Portrait of third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson

(1743 - 1826)

Boris Kachka

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

(1741 - 1803)

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

(1935 - 2024)

Marghanita Laski

(1915 - 1988)

Nancy Lemann

Engraving of Greek satirist Lucian.

Lucian

(125 - c. 180)

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

(1839 - 1908)

Painted portrait of Florentine statesman and philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli.

Niccolò Machiavelli

(1469 - 1527)

Marguerite de Navarre

(1492 - 1549)

black and white pencil drawing of Moliere in an ornate frame

Molière

(1622 - 1673)

E.D. Morel

(1873 - 1924)

Murasaki Shikibu

(c. 973 - c. 1031)

Judith Sargent Murray

(1751 - 1820)

Matthew Paris

(c. 1200 - 1259)

Parliament of Singapore

Black and white engraving of Roman author Petronius.

Gaius Petronius Arbiter

(c. 27 - 66)