Boccaccio
Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian humanist
John Colet, English humanist
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar
Humanist scholars in debate, 16th century
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1516)
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1518)
Johannes Stabius, Austrian cartographer
Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
John Selden, English humanist polymath
Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet
Bonaventura Vulcanius, Dutch humanist
Guillaume Philandrier, French humanist
Cornelius Valerius, Dutch humanist
Title page of Politiae literariae, 1540
Leon Battista Alberti, Italian polymath
The Unicorn in Captivity, circa 1500
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch theologian
Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian writer
Manuel Jose Quintana.
Alphonse Daudet.
Thomas Gray.
Bain of crosses reported in Sicily.
Rain of blood.
Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist
John Colet, English humanist theologian
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Italian humanist
Sir Thomas More, English statesman
Simon Grynaeus, German theologian
Rudolph Snellius, Dutch mathematician
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Italian lawyer
Geoffrey Chaucer, English author and poet
Flooding of the fibre caused by heavy rains.
John Milton, English poet
William Shakespeare, English playwright
Everardus Vorstius, Dutch physician
Janos Zsamboky, Hungarian humanist
Christophe Plantin, French printer
Yersin Museum, Nha Trang, Vietnam
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer
Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar
Oscar Wilde.
Walter John de la Mare.
Allan Cunningham.
James Hogg.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), American Humanist, Novelist, writer of Short Stories, Poetry and Nonfiction, and a lecturer for Social Reform, Seated Portrait, Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1900
Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American Poet, half-length seated Portrait, G. Frank E. Pearsall, 1872
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American Essayist, Lecturer, Poet and Leader of the Transcendentalist Movement, head and shoulders Portrait, Frederick Gutekunst, 1875
French surrealist poets, historical image
Fludd's account of creation
Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Spanish alchemist
Joseph Addison, English essayist
John Calvin, French theologian
Medieval comic poem, 16th century
Robert Estienne, French printer
Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc, astronomer
Theodorus Gaza, Greek humanist
Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman
Ramon Llull, Majorcan philosopher
Dorothy Osborne, English letter writer
Pietro Giannone, Italian historian
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, 1679 artwork
1607 Manticore or Mantichore monster
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
Francois de Chateaubriand, French writer
John Milton (1608-1674)
Nicolaus Copernicus Monument, Poland
Edgar Allan Poe, US author and poet
Phillis Wheatley, African American author
Edmund William Gosse.
James Henry Leigh Hunt.
Edmond Rostand.
Alice Brown, US author
Nathalia Clara Ruth Crane, US child poet and novelist
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British Poet
Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss theologist
Physician Carlos Finlay, yellow fever researcher
Democritus, Greek philosopher
Jules Verne's 'From the Earth to the Moon' (1865)
Carlos Finlay, Cuban physician
Joseph Conrad.
John Galsworthy.
Ben Jonson.
Anna Maria Hall.
1705 African Manticore of Ctesias
Coloured SEM of Yersinia pestis bacteria
Plague blood test, conceptual image
Johannes Stoeffler, German mathematician
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest
Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian printer
Raffaellino del Garbo, Italian painter
Locust pest control, Algeria, 1889
Roger Bacon, English philosopher
Dante
Page from Kepler's 'Somnium' novel, 1634
Cicero's collected works, 17th century
Suetonius writing The Twelve Caesars
Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist
Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist
Solon of Athens, Greek statesman and lawmaker
Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher
Death playing a drum, 19th C illustration
Henry Hetherington.
Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher
Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist
Alfonso the Magnanimous, King of Aragon
Hippocrates and Artaxerxes
Alchemist at work, 18th century
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711), French Poet and Critic, Head and Shoulders Engraving
Denis Davydov (1784-1839), Russian Soldier and Poet, Famed Guerilla Leader against Napoleon's Forces during 1812 Invasion of Russia, Lithograph
Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836-61), Russian Literary Critic, Journalist and Poet, Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving
Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen (1859-1941), African American Educator and Author, Half-Length Portrait, Tintype Photograph, 1870's
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82), American Poet and Educator, Portrait, circa 1882
James Russell Lowell (1819-91), American Poet, Portrait
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) German Poet, Philosopher, Historian, and Playwright, Portrait, E.H. Schroeder, Berlin, 1793
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92), American Quaker Poet and Abolitionist, Portrait, Sarony & Co., 1870
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Scottish Historical Novelist, Playwright and Poet, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Etching by H.B. Hall, 1876
Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Irish Poet, Songwriter and Entertainer, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Engraving by H.B. Hall & Sons, 1876
Walt Whitman (1819-92), American Poet, Seated Portrait with Two Children, 1887
King Henry VIII of England
Louisa May Alcott.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1655 John Wilmott Earl of Rochester
Queen Elizabeth I, English monarch
Woodcut of a rabid dog
Yersinia pestis bacteria, SEM
Flu virus map
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Smallpox in Bangladesh, 1970s
Nostradamus statue, France
Aldous Huxley, British writer and novelist
14th century theological cosmography
Norman Mailer (1923-2007), American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Bernard Gotfryd, 1967
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), American Novelist and Writer, seated Portrait, Mathew Brady Studio, early 1860's
Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828-89), Russian Socialist, Writer and Philosopher, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81), German Writer, Philosopher, Dramatist, Publicist and Art Critic, Engraving, 1873
Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638)
Planispheric astrolobe
Little Moreton Hall, UK
Malleus Maleficarum, 1520 edition
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Rudyard Kipling, British poet and author
Charles Dickens, British author
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet.
T. S. Eliot.
Johann Wolfgang.
Oliver Goldsmith 'She Stoops to Conquer'.
SHAKESPEARE: RICHARD III.
St George slaying the dragon
Drooling in rabies
Patient infected with rabies
Sizes of celestial bodies, 1708
Bacterial mosquito pesticide
Native American dance, 16th century
Leonardo da Vinci
Divinity School, University of Oxford
A young man is standing against a split colored green and white background and holding a red book
Tower of Babel, 17th-century artwork
Statue of Bacchus
Thomas Sydenham, English physician
Sebastian Cabot, Italian explorer