BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-william-shakespeare-q692 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15640503 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16160504 DESCRIPTION:William Shakespeare was an English playwright\, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national p oet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works\, includ ing collaborations\, consist of some 39 plays\, 154 sonnets\, 3 long narra tive poems and a few other verses\, some of uncertain authorship. His play s have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguabl y the most influential writer in the English language\, and his works cont inue to be studied and reinterpreted.\n\nMay 3\, 1564 – May 3\, 1616\; d ied at 51.\nAlive at the same time as René Descartes\, Elizabeth I of Eng land\, Johannes Kepler\, Peter Paul Rubens\, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Pal estrina.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare SUMMARY:William Shakespeare · 1564–1616 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-leo-tolstoy-q7243 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18280909 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19101121 DESCRIPTION:Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy\, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy\, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the great est and most influential authors of all time.\n\nSeptember 9\, 1828 – No vember 20\, 1910\; died at 82.\nAlive at the same time as Adolf Hitler\, A lbert Einstein\, Karl Marx\, Vincent van Gogh\, and Frédéric Chopin.\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy SUMMARY:Leo Tolstoy · 1828–1910 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-q5879 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17490822 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18320323 DESCRIPTION:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work h as had a wide-ranging influence on literary\, political\, Christian views\ , and philosophical thought in the Western world from the late 18th centur y to the present. A poet\, playwright\, novelist\, scientist\, statesman\, theatre-director\, and critic\, Goethe wrote a wide range of works\, incl uding plays\, poetry and aesthetic criticism\, as well as treatises on bot any\, anatomy\, and colour.\n\nAugust 22\, 1749 – March 22\, 1832\; died at 82.\nAlive at the same time as Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Charles D arwin\, Ludwig van Beethoven\, and Napoleon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w iki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe SUMMARY:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1749–1832 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-homer-q6691 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-08511231 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-07500101 DESCRIPTION:Homer was an ancient Greek poet who is traditionally credited a s the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey\, two epic poems that are founda tional works of ancient Greek literature. Homer was highly revered in anci ent Greek society and is considered one of the most influential authors in history. The question of Homer's identity and existence—dubbed the "Hom eric Question"—continues to be debated\, and scholars generally regard t he two poems as the works of separate authors.\n\nc. 900 BC – c. 800 BC\ ; died at about 100.\nAlive at the same time as Amos\, Sargon II\, and Hes iod.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer SUMMARY:Homer · c. 900–c. 800 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-dante-alighieri-q1067 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:12650606 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:13210923 DESCRIPTION:Dante Alighieri\, widely known mononymously as Dante\, was an I talian poet\, writer\, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy\, originally cal led Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio\, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the gre atest literary work in the Italian language.\n\nJune 6\, 1265 – Septembe r 22\, 1321\; died at 56.\nAlive at the same time as Marco Polo\, Kublai K han\, William of Ockham\, Giotto\, and Roger Bacon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri SUMMARY:Dante Alighieri · 1265–1321 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-victor-hugo-q535 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18020226 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18850523 DESCRIPTION:Victor-Marie Hugo\, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author\, poet\, essayist\, playwright\, journalist\, human rights activist and pol itician.\n\nFebruary 26\, 1802 – May 22\, 1885\; died at 83.\nAlive at t he same time as Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Charles Darwin\, Ludwig van Beethoven\, and Vincent van Gogh.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_ Hugo SUMMARY:Victor Hugo · 1802–1885 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-fyodor-dostoyevsky-q991 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18211111 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18810210 DESCRIPTION:Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian philosopher\, nove list\, short-story writer\, essayist\, and journalist. He is regarded as o ne of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature\, and ma ny of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Dostoevsky 's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political\, social and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia\, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866)\, The Idiot (1869)\, Demons (1872)\, The Adolescent (1875) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His Notes from Un derground\, a novella published in 1864\, is considered one of the first w orks of existentialist literature.\n\nNovember 11\, 1821 – February 9\, 1881\; died at 59.\nAlive at the same time as Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\ , Charles Darwin\, Vincent van Gogh\, and Frédéric Chopin.\n\nhttps://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky SUMMARY:Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1821–1881 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-voltaire-q9068 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16940220 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17780531 DESCRIPTION:François-Marie Arouet\, known by his pen name Voltaire\, was a French Enlightenment writer\, philosopher (philosophe)\, satirist\, and h istorian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity and of slav ery\, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech\, freedom of religion\ , and separation of church and state.\n\nFebruary 20\, 1694 – May 30\, 1 778\; died at 84.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, George Washing ton\, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart\, Immanuel Kant\, and Johann Wolfgang von Go ethe.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire SUMMARY:Voltaire · 1694–1778 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-mark-twain-q7245 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18351130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19100422 DESCRIPTION:Samuel Langhorne Clemens\, known by the pen name Mark Twain\, w as an American writer\, humorist\, and essayist. He has been praised as th e "greatest humorist the United States has produced"\, with William Faulkn er calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel\, Adventures of Huckle berry Finn (1884)\, with the latter often called the "Great American Novel ". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pu dd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.\n\nNovember 30\, 1835 – April 21\, 1910\; di ed at 74.\nAlive at the same time as Adolf Hitler\, Albert Einstein\, Karl Marx\, Vincent van Gogh\, and Frédéric Chopin.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Mark_Twain SUMMARY:Mark Twain · 1835–1910 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-charles-dickens-q5686 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18120207 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18700610 DESCRIPTION:Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalis t. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters\, and i s regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His work s enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and\, by the 20th c entury\, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.\n\nFebruary 7\, 1812 – June 9\, 1870\; died at 58.\nAlive at the same time as Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Charles Darwin\, Ludwig van Beethoven\, and Vincent van Gogh.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens SUMMARY:Charles Dickens · 1812–1870 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-miguel-de-cervantes-q5682 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15471009 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16160423 DESCRIPTION:Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer widely regard ed as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's p re-eminent novelists. He is best known for his two-part novel Don Quixote\ , a work considered to be the first modern novel. Don Quixote has been lab elled by many well-known authors as the "best book of all time" and the "b est and most central work in world literature".\n\nOctober 9\, 1547 – Ap ril 22\, 1616\; died at 68.\nAlive at the same time as Michelangelo\, Ren é Descartes\, Elizabeth I of England\, Johannes Kepler\, and John Calvin. \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes SUMMARY:Miguel de Cervantes · 1547–1616 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-rabindranath-tagore-q7241 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18610506 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19410808 DESCRIPTION:Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet\, author\, playwright\, musician\, composer\, philosopher\, social reformer\, painter\, and one of the foremost figures of the Bengal Renaissance. In 1913\, Tagore became t he first Indian and non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category\, an d also the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A signific ant moulder of culture within Bengal and the Indian subcontinent\, he wrot e and composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.\n\nMay 6\, 18 61 – August 7\, 1941\; died at 80.\nAlive at the same time as Adolf Hitl er\, Albert Einstein\, Karl Marx\, Vincent van Gogh\, and Neil Armstrong.\ n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore SUMMARY:Rabindranath Tagore · 1861–1941 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-virgil-q1398 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-00691013 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-00170101 DESCRIPTION:Publius Vergilius Maro\, usually called Virgil or Vergil in Eng lish\, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues\, the Georgics \, and the epic Aeneid. Some minor poems\, collected in the Appendix Vergi liana\, were attributed to him in ancient times\, but modern scholars rega rd these as spurious\, with the possible exception of some short pieces.\n \nOctober 13\, 70 BC – 19 BC\; died at about 50.\nAlive at the same time as Julius Caesar\, Strabo\, Aglaonike\, Augustus\, and Cicero.\n\nhttps:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil SUMMARY:Virgil · 70–19 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-hans-christian-andersen-q5673 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18050402 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18750805 DESCRIPTION:Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish writer. A prolific writer of plays\, travelogues\, novels\, and poems\, he is also best remembered f or his literary fairy tales.\n\nApril 2\, 1805 – August 4\, 1875\; died at 70.\nAlive at the same time as Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Charles Da rwin\, Ludwig van Beethoven\, and Vincent van Gogh.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen SUMMARY:Hans Christian Andersen · 1805–1875 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-alexander-pushkin-q7200 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17990606 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18370211 DESCRIPTION:Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet\, playwright\, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the grea test Russian poet\, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature.\n \nJune 6\, 1799 – February 10\, 1837\; died at 37.\nAlive at the same ti me as Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Charles Darwin\, Ludwig van Beethoven\ , and Napoleon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pushkin SUMMARY:Alexander Pushkin · 1799–1837 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-franz-kafka-q905 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18830703 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19240604 DESCRIPTION:Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish writer and novelist fr om Prague. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature\, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique\, and typically fea ture isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and inco mprehensible bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexi con to describe situations like those depicted in his writings. His best-k nown works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926). He is also celebrated for his brief f ables and aphorisms\, which frequently incorporated comedic elements along side the darker themes of his longer works. His work has widely influenced artists\, philosophers\, composers\, filmmakers\, literary historians\, r eligious scholars\, and cultural theorists.\n\nJuly 3\, 1883 – June 3\, 1924\; died at 40.\nAlive at the same time as Adolf Hitler\, Albert Einste in\, Pablo Picasso\, Friedrich Nietzsche\, and Ronald Reagan.\n\nhttps://e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka SUMMARY:Franz Kafka · 1883–1924 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-anton-chekhov-q5685 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18600129 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19040716 DESCRIPTION:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright\, short story writer\, and physician. Widely considered one of the greatest writers of a ll time\, his career as a playwright produced four classics\, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg\, Chekhov is often referred to as one o f the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre . Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife\," he once said\, "and literature is my mistress."\n\nJanuary 29\, 1860 – Jul y 15\, 1904\; died at 44.\nAlive at the same time as Adolf Hitler\, Albert Einstein\, Karl Marx\, Vincent van Gogh\, and Leo Tolstoy.\n\nhttps://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov SUMMARY:Anton Chekhov · 1860–1904 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-moliere-q687 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16220115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16730217 DESCRIPTION:Jean-Baptiste Poquelin\, known by his stage name Molière\, was a French playwright\, actor\, and poet\, widely regarded as one of the gr eat writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies\, farces\, tragicomedies\, comédie-ballets\, and more. H is plays have been translated into every major living language and are per formed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playw right today. His influence is such that the French language is often refer red to as the "language of Molière".\n\nJanuary 15\, 1622 – February 16 \, 1673\; died at 51.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, René Desc artes\, Rembrandt\, Louis XIV of France\, and John Locke.\n\nhttps://en.wi kipedia.org/wiki/Moli%C3%A8re SUMMARY:Molière · 1622–1673 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-edgar-allan-poe-q16867 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18090119 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18491008 DESCRIPTION:Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer\, poet\, editor\, and li terary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories\, particu larly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded a s one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the Unit ed States and of early American literature.\n\nJanuary 19\, 1809 – Octob er 7\, 1849\; died at 40.\nAlive at the same time as Karl Marx\, Abraham L incoln\, Charles Darwin\, Ludwig van Beethoven\, and Napoleon.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe SUMMARY:Edgar Allan Poe · 1809–1849 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-lord-byron-q5679 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17880122 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18240420 DESCRIPTION:George Noel Gordon Byron\, 6th Baron Byron\, was a British poet . He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement\, and is regard ed as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known works a re the lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage\; many o f his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.\n\nJanuary 22 \, 1788 – April 19\, 1824\; died at 36.\nAlive at the same time as Abrah am Lincoln\, Charles Darwin\, Ludwig van Beethoven\, Immanuel Kant\, and N apoleon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron SUMMARY:Lord Byron · 1788–1824 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-sophocles-q7235 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-04950101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-04040101 DESCRIPTION:Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian\, one of three from wh om at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than\, or contemporary with\, those of Aeschylus and earlier than\, or contemporary with\, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote more than 120 p lays\, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax\, Antigone\, Women of Trachis\, Oedipus Rex\, Electra\, Philoctetes\, and Oedipus at Co lonus. For almost 50 years\, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens\, which took plac e during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He compet ed in 30 competitions\, won 24\, and was never judged lower than second pl ace. Aeschylus won 13 competitions and was sometimes beaten by Sophocles\; Euripides won four.\n\n496 BC – 406 BC\; died at about 89.\nAlive at th e same time as Confucius\, The Buddha\, Hippocrates\, Thucydides\, and Pla to.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles SUMMARY:Sophocles · 496–406 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-george-orwell-q3335 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19030625 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19500122 DESCRIPTION:Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist\, poet\, essayist\, j ournalist\, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose\, social criticism\, opposition to al l totalitarianism\, and support of democratic socialism.\n\nJune 25\, 1903 – January 21\, 1950\; died at 46.\nAlive at the same time as Adolf Hitl er\, Albert Einstein\, Pablo Picasso\, Pope Francis\, and Neil Armstrong.\ n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell SUMMARY:George Orwell · 1903–1950 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-ernest-hemingway-q23434 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18990721 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19610703 DESCRIPTION:Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist\, short-story writer\, and journalist. Known for an economical\, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers\, he has been romanticized for his a dventurous lifestyle and outspoken\, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels\, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have becom e classics of American literature\, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Priz e in Literature.\n\nJuly 21\, 1899 – July 2\, 1961\; died at 61.\nAlive at the same time as Donald Trump\, Albert Einstein\, Pablo Picasso\, Pope Francis\, and Neil Armstrong.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemi ngway SUMMARY:Ernest Hemingway · 1899–1961 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-james-joyce-q6882 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18820202 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19410114 DESCRIPTION:James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist\, poet\, a nd literary critic. He contributed to the modernist movement and is regard ed among the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. J oyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles\, particularly str eam of consciousness. His other well-known works include the short-story c ollection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Yo ung Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include two b ooks of poetry\, a play\, correspondence\, and occasional journalism.\n\nF ebruary 2\, 1882 – January 13\, 1941\; died at 58.\nAlive at the same ti me as Adolf Hitler\, Albert Einstein\, Pablo Picasso\, Friedrich Nietzsche \, and Neil Armstrong.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce SUMMARY:James Joyce · 1882–1941 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-gabriel-garcia-marquez-q5878 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19270306 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140418 DESCRIPTION:Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journ alist\, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. C onsidered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century\, partic ularly in the Spanish language\, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt Internat ional Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He purs ued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a ca reer in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticis m of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958\, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo\; they had two sons\, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.\n\nMarch 6\, 1927 – Apr il 17\, 2014\; died at 87.\nAlive at the same time as Barack Obama\, Alber t Einstein\, Pablo Picasso\, Pope Francis\, and Neil Armstrong.\n\nhttps:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez SUMMARY:Gabriel García Márquez · 1927–2014 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-matsuo-basho-q5676 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16440101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16941129 DESCRIPTION:Matsuo Bashō \; born Matsuo Kinsaku \, later known as Matsuo C hūemon Munefusa was the most famous Japanese poet of the Edo period. Dur ing his lifetime\, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborativ e haikai no renga form\; today\, after centuries of commentary\, he is rec ognized as the greatest master of haiku. He is also well known for his tra vel essays beginning with Records of a Weather-Exposed Skeleton (1684)\, w ritten after his journey west to Kyoto and Nara.\n\n1644 – November 28\, 1694\; died at about 50.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, John L ocke\, Rembrandt\, Louis XIV of France\, and Antonio Vivaldi.\n\nhttps://e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuo_Bash%C5%8D SUMMARY:Matsuo Bashō · 1644–1694 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-ovid-q7198 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-00420318 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:00180101 DESCRIPTION:Publius Ovidius Naso\, known in English as Ovid\, was a Roman p oet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace\, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three ca nonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian conside red him to be the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed e normous popularity during his lifetime\, the emperor Augustus exiled him t o Tomis\, the capital of the newly organized province of Moesia\, on the B lack Sea\, where he remained for the last nine or 10 years of his life. Ov id himself attributed his banishment to a carmen et error\, but his reluct ance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars .\n\nMarch 18\, 43 BC – 17\; died at about 58.\nAlive at the same time a s Jesus Christ\, Augustus\, Seneca\, Virgil\, and Paul the Apostle.\n\nhtt ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid SUMMARY:Ovid · 43 BC–17 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-li-bai-q7071 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:07010523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:07621205 DESCRIPTION:Li Bai\, also known by his courtesy name of Taibai\, was a Chin ese poet acclaimed as one of the best and most important poets of the Tang dynasty\, and even in the whole of Chinese poetry. He and his friends suc h as Du Fu (712–770) were among the prominent figures in the flourishing of Chinese poetry of the Tang dynasty\, often called the "Golden Age of C hinese Poetry". The expression "Three Wonders" denotes Li Bai's poetry\, P ei Min's swordplay\, and Zhang Xu's calligraphy.\n\nMay 23\, 701 – Decem ber 4\, 762\; died at 61.\nAlive at the same time as Charlemagne\, Abū Ḥanīfa\, Du Fu\, Jabir ibn Hayyan\, and Bede.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/Li_Bai SUMMARY:Li Bai · 701–762 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-friedrich-schiller-q22670 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17591110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18050510 DESCRIPTION:Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German playwright \, poet\, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered to be one of G ermany's most important classical playwrights. He was one of the most impo rtant figures of the Sturm und Drang movement.\n\nNovember 10\, 1759 – M ay 9\, 1805\; died at 45.\nAlive at the same time as Napoleon\, Ludwig van Beethoven\, Immanuel Kant\, Carl Linnaeus\, and Johann Wolfgang von Goeth e.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller SUMMARY:Friedrich Schiller · 1759–1805 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-j-k-rowling-q34660 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19650731 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018 DESCRIPTION:Joanne Rowling\, better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling\, i s a British author\, philanthropist\, producer\, and screenwriter. She is best known for writing Harry Potter\, a seven-volume series about a young wizard and the best-selling book series in history\, with over 600 million copies sold. She also writes Cormoran Strike\, an ongoing crime fiction s eries\, under the alias Robert Galbraith.\n\nBorn July 31\, 1965\; 61 toda y.\nAlive at the same time as Barack Obama\, Salvador Dalí\, Pope Francis \, Neil Armstrong\, and Stephen Hawking.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ J._K._Rowling SUMMARY:J. K. Rowling · born 1965 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-geoffrey-chaucer-q5683 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:13430101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14001104 DESCRIPTION:Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet\, writer and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the 'father of En glish literature'\, or alternatively\, the 'father of English poetry'. He was the first writer to be buried in what has since become Poets' Corner i n Westminster Abbey.\n\n1343 – November 3\, 1400\; died at about 57.\nAl ive at the same time as Ibn Battuta\, Jan Hus\, Jan van Eyck\, Bayezid I\, and Hafez.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer SUMMARY:Geoffrey Chaucer · 1343–1400 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-naguib-mahfouz-q7176 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19111211 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060831 DESCRIPTION:Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize\ , the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who\, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic\, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Egyptian narrative art that applies to all mankind".\n\n December 11\, 1911 – August 30\, 2006\; died at 94.\nAlive at the same t ime as Barack Obama\, Albert Einstein\, Pablo Picasso\, Pope Francis\, and Neil Armstrong.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naguib_Mahfouz SUMMARY:Naguib Mahfouz · 1911–2006 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-horace-q6197 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-00641206 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-00071126 DESCRIPTION:Quintus Horatius Flaccus\, commonly known in the English-speaki ng world as Horace\, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of A ugustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin ly rics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes\, yet he is also full of ch arm and grace\, versatile in his figures\, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."\n\nDecember 6\, 65 BC – November 25\, 8 BC\; died at 5 6.\nAlive at the same time as Julius Caesar\, Strabo\, Aglaonike\, Virgil\ , and Augustus.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace SUMMARY:Horace · 65–8 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-hafez-q6240 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:13250101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:13900101 DESCRIPTION:Khajeh Shams-od-Din Mohammad Hafez Shirazi (1325–1390)\, also known by his pen name Hafez\, was a Persian lyric poet whose collected wo rks are regarded by many Iranians as one of the highest pinnacles of Persi an literature. His works are often found in the homes of Persian speakers\ , who learn his poems by heart and use them as everyday proverbs and sayin gs. His life and poems have become the subjects of much analysis\, comment ary\, and interpretation\, influencing post-14th century Persian writing m ore than any other Persian author. He is also known by his sobriquet Lisan al-Ghayb.\n\n1325 – 1389\; died at about 64.\nAlive at the same time as Ibn Battuta\, Jan Hus\, Giotto\, Bayezid I\, and Geoffrey Chaucer.\n\nhtt ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez SUMMARY:Hafez · 1325–1389 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-petrarch-q1401 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:13040727 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:13740801 DESCRIPTION:Francis Petrarch was an Italian scholar and poet of the early I talian Renaissance\, as well as one of the earliest Renaissance humanists. \n\nJuly 27\, 1304 – 1374\; died at about 69.\nAlive at the same time as Marco Polo\, William of Ockham\, Giotto\, Bayezid I\, and Ibn Taymiyyah.\ n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch SUMMARY:Petrarch · 1304–1374 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-isaac-asimov-q34981 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19200102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19920407 DESCRIPTION:Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemist ry at Boston University. During his lifetime\, Asimov was considered one o f the "Big Three" science fiction writers\, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estima ted 90\,000 letters and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction \, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy\, as well as popular science an d other non-fiction. His work spans nine out of the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system.\n\nJanuary 2\, 1920 – April 6\, 1992\; died at 72. \nAlive at the same time as Barack Obama\, Albert Einstein\, Pablo Picasso \, Pope Francis\, and Neil Armstrong.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isa ac_Asimov SUMMARY:Isaac Asimov · 1920–1992 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-jonathan-swift-q41166 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16671130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17451020 DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Swift was an Irish writer\, essayist\, satirist\, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. He is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era and one of the foremost prose authors in the history of English and world literature. \n\nNovember 30\, 1667 – October 19\, 1745\; died at 77.\nAlive at the s ame time as Isaac Newton\, George Washington\, Johann Sebastian Bach\, Imm anuel Kant\, and Voltaire.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift SUMMARY:Jonathan Swift · 1667–1745 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-murasaki-shikibu-q81731 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:09700101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:10320101 DESCRIPTION:Murasaki Shikibu \, or Shijo \, was a Japanese novelist\, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She was bes t known as the author of The Tale of Genji\, widely considered to be one o f the world's first novels\, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 10 12. Murasaki Shikibu is a descriptive name\; her personal name is unknown\ , but she may have been Fujiwara no Kaoruko (藤原香子)\, who was menti oned in a 1007 court diary as an imperial lady-in-waiting.\n\n970 – 1031 \; died at about 60.\nAlive at the same time as Avicenna\, Leif Erikson\, Sylvester II\, Vladimir the Great\, and Ferdowsi.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Murasaki_Shikibu SUMMARY:Murasaki Shikibu · 970–1031 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-abu-nuwas-q5670 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:07560101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:08150101 DESCRIPTION:Abu Nuwas was a classical Arabic poet\, and the foremost repres entative of the modern (muhdath) poetry that developed during the first ye ars of the Abbasid Caliphate. He also entered the folkloric tradition\, ap pearing several times in One Thousand and One Nights.\n\n756 – 814\; die d at about 58.\nAlive at the same time as Charlemagne\, Muḥammad ibn Mus a al-Khwarizmi\, Ādi Shankara\, Abū Ḥanīfa\, and Du Fu.\n\nhttps://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Nuwas SUMMARY:Abu Nuwas · 756–814 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-q34474 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19181211 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080804 DESCRIPTION:Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian autho r and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repressi on in the Soviet Union\, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarde d the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". His nonfi ction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the S oviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.\n\nDecember 11\, 1918 – August 3\, 2008\; died at 89.\nAlive at the same time as Barack Obama\ , Albert Einstein\, Pablo Picasso\, Pope Francis\, and Neil Armstrong.\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn SUMMARY:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1918–2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-rumi-q43347 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:12070930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:12730101 DESCRIPTION:Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī\, commonly known as Rumi\, was a Sufi mystic\, poet\, and founder of the Islamic brotherhood known as th e Mevlevi Order. His family hailed from Balkh. Rumi is an influential figu re in Sufism\, and his thought and works loom large both in Persian litera ture and mystic poetry in general. Today\, his translated works are enjoye d all over the world.\n\nSeptember 30\, 1207 – 1272\; died at about 64.\ nAlive at the same time as Marco Polo\, Genghis Khan\, Thomas Aquinas\, Fr ancis of Assisi\, and Fibonacci.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi SUMMARY:Rumi · 1207–1272 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-euripides-q48305 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-04790915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-04050101 DESCRIPTION:Euripides was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles\, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays. Some ancient scholars attribut ed ninety-five plays to him\, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Nineteen plays attributed to Euripides have survived more or less complet e\, although one of these (Rhesus) is often considered not to be genuinely his work. Many fragments survive from most of his other plays. More of hi s plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles togethe r\, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined: he became\, in the Hellenistic Age\, a cornerstone of ancient literary education\, along with Homer\, Demosthenes\, and Menander.\n\nSeptember 15\, 480 BC – 407 BC\; died at about 72.\nAlive at the same time as Plato\, The Buddha\, Hip pocrates\, Thucydides\, and Socrates.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eur ipides SUMMARY:Euripides · 480–407 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-john-milton-q79759 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16081209 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16741109 DESCRIPTION:John Milton was an English poet\, polemicist\, and civil servan t. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost was written in blank verse and include d 12 books\, written in a time of immense religious flux and political uph eaval. It addressed the fall of man\, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan\, and God's expulsion of them from the Gard en of Eden. Paradise Lost elevated Milton's reputation as one of history's greatest poets. He also served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.\n\nDe cember 9\, 1608 – November 8\, 1674\; died at 65.\nAlive at the same tim e as Isaac Newton\, René Descartes\, Rembrandt\, Louis XIV of France\, an d Molière.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton SUMMARY:John Milton · 1608–1674 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-aeschylus-q40939 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-05240101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-04540101 DESCRIPTION:Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian\, often described as t he father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work \, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferenc es made from reading his surviving plays. According to Aristotle\, he expa nded the number of characters in the theatre and allowed conflict among th em. Formerly\, characters interacted only with the chorus.\n\n525 BC – 4 56 BC\; died at about 69.\nAlive at the same time as Confucius\, The Buddh a\, Sun Tzu\, Socrates\, and Sophocles.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A eschylus SUMMARY:Aeschylus · 525–456 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-giovanni-boccaccio-q1402 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:13130624 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:13760101 DESCRIPTION:Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer\, poet\, correspondent of Petrarch\, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo\, he gained sufficient notoriety to be known simply as "the Certa ldese". Boccaccio ranked among the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Some scholars define him as t he greatest European prose writer of his time\, a versatile writer who ama lgamated different literary trends and genres\, making them converge in or iginal works\, thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism.\n\nJune 24\, 1313 – 1375\; died at about 61.\nAlive at the same time as Marco Polo\, William of Ockham\, Giotto\, Bayezid I\, an d Ibn Taymiyyah.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Boccaccio SUMMARY:Giovanni Boccaccio · 1313–1375 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-aristophanes-q43353 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-04490101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-03860101 DESCRIPTION:Aristophanes was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens. He wrote forty plays\, of which eleven survive virtually complete. The ma jority of his surviving plays belong to the genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are considered its most valuable examples. Aristophanes's p lays were performed at the religious festivals of Athens\, mostly the City Dionysia and the Lenaia\, and several of them won the first prize in thei r respective competitions.\n\n450 BC – 388 BC\; died at about 62.\nAlive at the same time as Plato\, Hippocrates\, Thucydides\, Socrates\, and Sop hocles.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristophanes SUMMARY:Aristophanes · 450–388 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-sappho-q17892 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-06290101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-05680101 DESCRIPTION:Sappho was an ancient Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. She is known for her lyric poetry\, written to be sung while accompanied by music. In ancient times\, she was widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets and was given names such as the "Tenth Mus e" and "The Poetess". Most of Sappho's poetry is now lost\, and what is no t has mostly survived in fragmentary form\; only the Ode to Aphrodite is c ertainly complete. As well as lyric poetry\, ancient commentators claimed that Sappho wrote elegiac and iambic poetry. Three epigrams formerly attri buted to Sappho have survived\, but these are actually Hellenistic imitati ons of Sappho's style.\n\n630 BC – 570 BC\; died at about 60.\nAlive at the same time as Pythagoras\, Cyrus the Great\, Zoroaster\, Thales\, and A naximander.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho SUMMARY:Sappho · 630–570 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-stephen-king-q39829 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19470921 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018 DESCRIPTION:Stephen Edwin King is an American author. Dubbed the "King of H orror"\, he is widely known for his horror fiction and has also explored o ther genres\, among them suspense\, crime\, science-fiction\, fantasy\, an d mystery. He has written approximately 200 short stories\, most of which have been published in collections.\n\nBorn September 21\, 1947\; 79 today .\nAlive at the same time as Barack Obama\, Pablo Picasso\, Pope Francis\, Neil Armstrong\, and Stephen Hawking.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St ephen_King SUMMARY:Stephen King · born 1947 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-jean-de-la-fontaine-q49496 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16210608 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16950414 DESCRIPTION:Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most w idely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables\, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe an d numerous alternative versions in France\, as well as in French regional languages.\n\nJune 8\, 1621 – April 13\, 1695\; died at 73.\nAlive at th e same time as Isaac Newton\, Johann Sebastian Bach\, René Descartes\, Re mbrandt\, and Louis XIV of France.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_d e_La_Fontaine SUMMARY:Jean de La Fontaine · 1621–1695 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-john-keats-q82083 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17951031 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18210224 DESCRIPTION:John Keats was an English poet of the second generation of Roma ntic poets\, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received in his lifetime\, but his fame grew rapidly after his death. By the end of the century\, he was placed in the canon of English literature\, strongly influencing many writ ers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood\; the Encyclopædia Britannica of 18 88 described his "Ode to a Nightingale" as "one of the final masterpieces" .\n\nOctober 31\, 1795 – February 23\, 1821\; died at 25.\nAlive at the same time as Abraham Lincoln\, Charles Darwin\, Ludwig van Beethoven\, Nap oleon\, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J ohn_Keats SUMMARY:John Keats · 1795–1821 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-chanakya-q9045 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-03740101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-02810101 DESCRIPTION:Chanakya\, according to legendary narratives preserved in vario us traditions dating from the 4th to 11th century CE\, was a Brahmin who a ssisted the first Mauryan emperor Chandragupta in his rise to power and th e establishment of the Maurya Empire. According to these narratives\, Chan akya served as the chief adviser and prime minister to both emperors Chand ragupta Maurya and his son Bindusara.\n\n375 BC – 283 BC\; died at about 92.\nAlive at the same time as Aristotle\, Alexander the Great\, Euclid\, Apelles\, and Plato.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanakya SUMMARY:Chanakya · 375–283 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-daniel-defoe-q40946 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16600403 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17320101 DESCRIPTION:Daniel Defoe was an English writer\, journalist\, merchant and spy. He is famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe (1719)\, Moll Flanders (1 722) and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724). He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel\, and helped to popularise t he form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson.\n \nApril 3\, 1660 – 1731\; died at about 70.\nAlive at the same time as I saac Newton\, Johann Sebastian Bach\, Jean-Jacques Rousseau\, Benjamin Fra nklin\, and Voltaire.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Defoe SUMMARY:Daniel Defoe · 1660–1731 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-michel-de-montaigne-q41568 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15330310 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15920913 DESCRIPTION:Michel Eyquem\, Seigneur de Montaigne\, commonly known as just Michel de Montaigne\, was one of the most significant writers of the Frenc h Renaissance. He is known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography w ith intellectual insight. Montaigne had a direct influence on numerous wri ters of Western literature\; his Essais contain some of the most influenti al essays ever written.\n\nMarch 10\, 1533 – September 12\, 1592\; died at 59.\nAlive at the same time as Michelangelo\, Martin Luther\, Nicolaus Copernicus\, Francis Bacon\, and Elizabeth I of England.\n\nhttps://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne SUMMARY:Michel de Montaigne · 1533–1592 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-du-fu-q33772 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:07120101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:07710101 DESCRIPTION:Du Fu was a Chinese poet and government official of the Tang dy nasty. Together with his older contemporary and friend Li Bai\, he is one of the principal poets associated with Tang poetry. Nearly 1\,500 poems at tributed to him survive.\n\n712 – 770\; died at about 58.\nAlive at the same time as Charlemagne\, Abū Ḥanīfa\, Li Bai\, Abu Nuwas\, and Jabir ibn Hayyan.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Fu SUMMARY:Du Fu · 712–770 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-orhan-pamuk-q241248 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19520607 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018 DESCRIPTION:Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist\, screenwriter\, academ ic\, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists\, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languag es\, making him the country's best-selling writer.\n\nBorn June 7\, 1952\; 74 today.\nAlive at the same time as Barack Obama\, Pablo Picasso\, Pope Francis\, Neil Armstrong\, and Stephen Hawking.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk SUMMARY:Orhan Pamuk · born 1952 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-francois-rabelais-q131018 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14940101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15530420 DESCRIPTION:François Rabelais was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholar\, he attracted opposition from both Protestant theologian Jo hn Calvin and from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Though in his day he was best known as a physician\, scholar\, diplomat\, and Catholic prie st\, later he became better known as a satirist for his depictions of the grotesque\, and for his larger-than-life characters.\n\n1494 – April 19\ , 1553\; died at about 59.\nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci\, Michelangelo\, Martin Luther\, Christopher Columbus\, and Niccolò Machiav elli.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Rabelais SUMMARY:François Rabelais · 1494–1553 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-samuel-johnson-q183266 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17090918 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17841214 DESCRIPTION:Samuel Johnson\, often called Dr Johnson\, was an English write r and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet\, playwright\, ess ayist\, moralist\, literary critic\, sermonist\, biographer\, editor\, and lexicographer. The work for which he is best known is his 42\,733-entry D ictionary of the English Language (1755). For this and other contributions in and to the English language\, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biogra phy has called him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in Engl ish history".\n\nSeptember 18\, 1709 – December 13\, 1784\; died at 75.\ nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, Napoleon\, Ludwig van Beethoven\ , Immanuel Kant\, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson SUMMARY:Samuel Johnson · 1709–1784 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-paulo-coelho-q12881 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19470824 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018 DESCRIPTION:Paulo Coelho de Souza is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He has been a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His 1988 novel The Alchemist is an international best-seller.\n\nBorn August 24\, 1947\; 79 today.\nAlive at the same time as Barack Obama\, Pablo Picasso\, Pope Francis\, Neil Armstrong\, and Stephen Hawking.\n\nhttps://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/Paulo_Coelho SUMMARY:Paulo Coelho · born 1947 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-averroes-q39837 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:11260421 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:11981218 DESCRIPTION:Ibn Rushd\, Latinized as Averroes\, was an Andalusian polymath and jurist who was proficient in a variety of intellectual fields\, includ ing philosophy\, theology\, medicine\, astronomy\, physics\, psychology\, mathematics\, neurology\, Islamic jurisprudence\, law\, and linguistics. T he author of more than 100 books and treatises\, his philosophical works i nclude numerous commentaries on Aristotle\, for which he was known in the Western world as "The Commentator" and "Father of Rationalism".\n\nApril 2 1\, 1126 – December 17\, 1198\; died at 72.\nAlive at the same time as G enghis Khan\, Francis of Assisi\, Zhu Xi\, Fibonacci\, and Saladin.\n\nhtt ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averroes SUMMARY:Averroes · 1126–1198 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-mary-wollstonecraft-q101638 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17590427 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17970911 DESCRIPTION:Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights. Until the late twentieth century \, Wollstonecraft's life\, which encompassed several unconventional person al relationships\, received more attention than her writing. Wollstonecraf t is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers\, and feminists often cite both her life and her works as important influences.\n\nApril 27\, 1759 – September 10\, 1797\; died at 38.\nAlive at the same time as Napoleon\, Ludwig van Beethoven\, Immanuel Kant\, Carl Linnaeus\, and Joh ann Wolfgang von Goethe.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecr aft SUMMARY:Mary Wollstonecraft · 1759–1797 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-ferdowsi-q43459 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:09400108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:10210101 DESCRIPTION:Abul-Qāsem Mansur bin Hasan Tosi (940–1025)\, better known b y his pen name Ferdowsi\, was a Persian poet who is notable for being the author of the Shahnameh\, which is one of the world's longest epic poems c reated by a single poet\, and the greatest epic of the Persian-speaking co untries. Ferdowsi is celebrated as one of the most influential figures of Persian literature and one of the greatest in the history of literature.\n \nJanuary 8\, 940 – 1020\; died at about 79.\nAlive at the same time as Avicenna\, Leif Erikson\, Farabi\, Sylvester II\, and Vladimir the Great.\ n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdowsi SUMMARY:Ferdowsi · 940–1020 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-hesiod-q44233 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-07750101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-06500101 DESCRIPTION:Hesiod was an Ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC\, around the same time as Homer.\n\n776 BC – c. 700 BC\; died at about 74.\nAlive at the same time as Ashurbanipal\ , Amos\, Homer\, Archilochus of Paros\, and Sennacherib.\n\nhttps://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod SUMMARY:Hesiod · 776–c. 700 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-pliny-the-elder-q82778 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:00230101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:00790823 DESCRIPTION:Gaius Plinius Secundus\, known in English as Pliny the Elder\, was a Roman author\, naturalist\, scientist\, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire\, procurator\, and friend of the emperor Vespasian. Pliny wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia\, a thirty-seven-volume w ork covering a vast array of topics on human knowledge and the natural wor ld\, which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. He spent most of h is spare time studying\, writing\, and investigating natural and geographi c phenomena in the field.\n\n23 – August 22\, 79\; died at about 56.\nAl ive at the same time as Jesus Christ\, Plutarch\, Nero\, Paul the Apostle\ , and Seneca.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder SUMMARY:Pliny the Elder · 23–79 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-lope-de-vega-q165257 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15621205 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16350828 DESCRIPTION:Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio was a Spanish playwright\, poet\, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Baroque literature. In the literature of Spain\, Lope de Vega is often considered second only to Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes said that Lope de Vega was “The Phoenix of Wits” and “Monster of Nature”.\n\nDecemb er 5\, 1562 – August 27\, 1635\; died at 72.\nAlive at the same time as René Descartes\, Rembrandt\, Blaise Pascal\, Elizabeth I of England\, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lope_d e_Vega SUMMARY:Lope de Vega · 1562–1635 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-lucretius-q47154 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-00930101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-00541014 DESCRIPTION:Titus Lucretius Carus was a Roman poet and philosopher. His onl y known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura\, a didactic work a bout the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism\, which usually is translat ed into English as On the Nature of Things—and somewhat less often as On the Nature of the Universe. \nVery little is known about Lucretius's life \; the only certainty is that he was either a friend or client of Gaius Me mmius\, to whom the poem was addressed and dedicated. De rerum natura was a considerable influence on the Augustan poets\, particularly Virgil and H orace. The work was almost lost during the Middle Ages\, but was rediscove red in 1417 in a monastery in Germany by Poggio Bracciolini. It played an important role both in the development of atomism and the efforts of vario us figures of the Enlightenment era to construct a new Christian humanism. \n\n94 BC – October 13\, 55 BC\; died at about 39.\nAlive at the same ti me as Julius Caesar\, Strabo\, Aglaonike\, Virgil\, and Cicero.\n\nhttps:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretius SUMMARY:Lucretius · 94–55 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-robert-burns-q81960 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17590125 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17960722 DESCRIPTION:Robert Burns\, also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns\, was a Sc ottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Sc otland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language\, although much of his writing is in a "light Scots dialect" of English\, accessible to an audience beyond Scotla nd. He also wrote in standard English\, and in these writings his politica l or civil commentary is often at its bluntest.\n\nJanuary 25\, 1759 – J uly 21\, 1796\; died at 37.\nAlive at the same time as Napoleon\, Ludwig v an Beethoven\, Immanuel Kant\, Carl Linnaeus\, and Johann Wolfgang von Goe the.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns SUMMARY:Robert Burns · 1759–1796 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-alexander-pope-q164047 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16880521 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17440611 DESCRIPTION:Alexander Pope was an English poet\, translator\, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent Engli sh poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature\, P ope is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry including An Ess ay on Criticism (1711)\, The Rape of the Lock (1712–1717)\, The Dunciad (1728–1743)\, and for his translations of Homer.\n\nMay 21\, 1688 – Ju ne 10\, 1744\; died at 56.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, Georg e Washington\, Johann Sebastian Bach\, Immanuel Kant\, and Voltaire.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope SUMMARY:Alexander Pope · 1688–1744 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-catullus-q163079 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-00830101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-00520101 DESCRIPTION:Gaius Valerius Catullus\, known as Catullus\, was a Latin neote ric poet of the late Roman Republic. His surviving works remain widely rea d due to their popularity as teaching tools and because of their personal or sexual themes.\n\n84 BC – 54 BC\; died at about 29.\nAlive at the sam e time as Julius Caesar\, Strabo\, Aglaonike\, Virgil\, and Cicero.\n\nhtt ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus SUMMARY:Catullus · 84–54 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-jean-racine-q742 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16391222 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16990422 DESCRIPTION:Jean-Baptiste Racine was a French dramatist\, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France\, along with Molière and Corneil le\, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian\, producing such "examp les of neoclassical perfection" as Phèdre\, Andromaque\, and Athalie. He did write one comedy\, Les Plaideurs\, and a muted tragedy\, Esther\, for the young.\n\nDecember 22\, 1639 – April 21\, 1699\; died at 59.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, Johann Sebastian Bach\, René Descartes \, Rembrandt\, and Louis XIV of France.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J ean_Racine SUMMARY:Jean Racine · 1639–1699 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-novalis-q60684 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17720502 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18010326 DESCRIPTION:Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg\, better known by his pen name Novalis\, was a German aristocrat and polymath\, who was a poet\, novelist\, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influentia l figure in Jena Romanticism.\n\nMay 2\, 1772 – March 25\, 1801\; died a t 28.\nAlive at the same time as Napoleon\, Ludwig van Beethoven\, Immanue l Kant\, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\, and George Washington.\n\nhttps://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Novalis SUMMARY:Novalis · 1772–1801 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-luis-de-camoes-q590 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15241201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15810101 DESCRIPTION:Luís Vaz de Camões\, sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns\, was a Portuguese poet\, considered Portugal's and the Portu guese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare\, Milton\, Vondel\, Homer\, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas. His collection of poetry The Parnasum of L uís de Camões was lost during his life. The influence of his masterpiece Os Lusíadas is so profound that Portuguese is sometimes called the "lang uage of Camões".\n\n1524 – 1580\; died at about 55.\nAlive at the same time as Michelangelo\, Martin Luther\, Nicolaus Copernicus\, Francis Bacon \, and Elizabeth I of England.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_ de_Cam%C3%B5es SUMMARY:Luís de Camões · 1524–1580 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-charles-perrault-q128460 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16280112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17030517 DESCRIPTION:Charles Perrault was a French author and member of the Académi e Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre\, the fairy tale\, with his works derived from earlier folk tales\, published in his 1697 book Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The best known of his tales include "Little Red Riding Hood"\, "Cinderella"\, "Puss in Boots"\, "Slee ping Beauty"\, and "Bluebeard".\n\nJanuary 12\, 1628 – May 16\, 1703\; d ied at 75.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, Johann Sebastian Bach \, René Descartes\, Rembrandt\, and Louis XIV of France.\n\nhttps://en.wi kipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Perrault SUMMARY:Charles Perrault · 1628–1703 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-plautus-q47160 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-02490101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-01820101 DESCRIPTION:Titus Maccius Plautus was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin p eriod. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia\, the genre devised by Livi us Andronicus\, the innovator of Latin literature. The word Plautine refer s to both Plautus's own works and works similar to or influenced by his.\n He influenced some of the greatest figures in literature\, including Shake speare and Molière.\n\n250 BC – 184 BC\; died at about 66.\nAlive at th e same time as Archimedes\, Qin Shi Huang\, Xunzi\, Ashoka\, and Hannibal. \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plautus SUMMARY:Plautus · 250–184 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-gotthold-ephraim-lessing-q34628 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17290122 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17810216 DESCRIPTION:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German philosopher\, dramatist\, publicist and art critic. He was a representative of the Enlightenment. H is plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. He is widely considered by theatre historians to be the first dramaturg in his role at Abel Seyler's Hamburg National Theatre . The word "dramaturgy" first appears in his work Hamburg Dramaturgy.\n\nJ anuary 22\, 1729 – February 15\, 1781\; died at 52.\nAlive at the same t ime as Napoleon\, Ludwig van Beethoven\, Immanuel Kant\, Carl Linnaeus\, a nd Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthold_E phraim_Lessing SUMMARY:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · 1729–1781 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-menander-q118992 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-03410101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-02890101 DESCRIPTION:Menander was a Greek playwright and the best-known representati ve of Athenian New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His record at the City Dionysia is unknown.\ n\n342 BC – 291 BC\; died at about 51.\nAlive at the same time as Aristo tle\, Alexander the Great\, Euclid\, Apelles\, and Ashoka.\n\nhttps://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/Menander SUMMARY:Menander · 342–291 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-pindar-q134929 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-05210101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-04500101 DESCRIPTION:Pindar was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the cano nical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece\, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote\, "Of the nine lyric poets\, Pindar is by far the greate st\, in virtue of his inspired magnificence\, the beauty of his thoughts a nd figures\, the rich exuberance of his language and matter\, and his roll ing flood of eloquence\, characteristics which\, as Horace rightly held\, make him inimitable." His poems can also\, however\, seem difficult and ev en peculiar. The Athenian comic playwright Eupolis once remarked that they "are already reduced to silence by the disinclination of the multitude fo r elegant learning".\n\n522 BC – c. 500 BC\; died at about 20.\nAlive at the same time as Confucius\, The Buddha\, Sun Tzu\, Socrates\, and Sophoc les.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pindar SUMMARY:Pindar · 522–c. 500 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-christopher-marlowe-q28975 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15640216 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15930610 DESCRIPTION:Christopher Marlowe\, also known as Kit Marlowe\, was an Englis h playwright\, poet\, and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is am ong the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the "many i mitations" of his play Tamburlaine\, modern scholars consider him to have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his mysteri ous early death. Some scholars also believe that he greatly influenced Wil liam Shakespeare\, who was baptised in the same year as Marlowe and later succeeded him as the preeminent Elizabethan playwright. Marlowe was the fi rst to achieve critical reputation for his use of blank verse\, which beca me the standard for the era. His plays are distinguished by their overreac hing protagonists. Themes found within Marlowe's literary works have been noted as humanistic with realistic emotions\, which some scholars find dif ficult to reconcile with Marlowe's "anti-intellectualism" and his catering to the prurient tastes of his Elizabethan audiences for generous displays of extreme physical violence\, cruelty\, and bloodshed.\n\nFebruary 16\, 1564 – June 9\, 1593\; died at 29.\nAlive at the same time as Francis Ba con\, Elizabeth I of England\, Johannes Kepler\, Peter Paul Rubens\, and G iovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christop her_Marlowe SUMMARY:Christopher Marlowe · 1564–1593 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-apuleius-q170512 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:01250101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:01710101 DESCRIPTION:Apuleius\, also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis\, was a Numi dian Latin-language prose writer\, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He was born in the Roman province of Numidia\, in the Berber city of Madau ros\, modern-day M'Daourouch\, Algeria. He studied Platonism in Athens\, t ravelled to Italy\, Asia Minor\, and Egypt\, and was an initiate in severa l cults or mysteries. The most famous incident in his life was when he was accused of using magic to gain the attentions of a wealthy widow. He decl aimed his own defense before the proconsul and a court of magistrates conv ened in Sabratha\, near Oea. This speech\, which Apuleius subsequently pub lished\, is known as the Apologia.\n\n125 – 170\; died at about 44.\nAli ve at the same time as Marcus Aurelius\, Ptolemy\, Nagarjuna\, Tertullian\ , and Hadrian.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apuleius SUMMARY:Apuleius · 125–170 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-pliny-the-younger-q168707 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:00610101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:01140101 DESCRIPTION:Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus\, better known in English as P liny the Younger\, was a lawyer\, author\, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle\, Pliny the Elder\, helped raise and educate him.\n\n61 – 113\; died at about 52.\nAlive at the same time as Plutarch\, Ptolemy\, T rajan\, John the Apostle\, and Pliny the Elder.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger SUMMARY:Pliny the Younger · 61–113 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-john-donne-q140412 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15720201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16320101 DESCRIPTION:John Donne was an English poet\, scholar\, soldier and secretar y born into a recusant family\, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. Under royal patronage\, he was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London (1621–1631). He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His poetical works are noted for their metaphoric al and sensual style and include sonnets\, love poems\, religious poems\, Latin translations\, epigrams\, elegies\, songs and satires. He is also kn own for his sermons.\n\nFebruary 1\, 1572 – 1631\; died at about 58.\nAl ive at the same time as René Descartes\, Rembrandt\, Elizabeth I of Engla nd\, Johannes Kepler\, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.\n\nhttps://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donne SUMMARY:John Donne · 1572–1631 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-juvenal-q193800 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:00550101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:01410101 DESCRIPTION:Decimus Junius Juvenalis\, known in English as Juvenal\, was a Roman poet. He is the author of the Satires\, a collection of satirical po ems. The details of Juvenal's life are unclear\, but references in his wor ks to people from the late first and early second centuries suggest that h e began writing no earlier than that time. One recent scholar argues that his first book was published in 100 or 101. A reference to a political fig ure dates his fifth and final surviving book to sometime after 127.\n\n55 – 140\; died at about 84.\nAlive at the same time as Paul the Apostle\, Marcus Aurelius\, Plutarch\, Ptolemy\, and Seneca.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Juvenal SUMMARY:Juvenal · 55–140 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-terence-q172048 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-01840101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-01570101 DESCRIPTION:Publius Terentius Afer\, better known in English as Terence\, w as a playwright during the Roman Republic. He was the author of six comedi es based on Greek originals by Menander or Apollodorus of Carystus. All si x of Terence's plays survive complete and were originally produced between 166 and 160 BC.\n\n185 BC – 159 BC\; died at about 26.\nAlive at the sa me time as Cato the Elder\, Hipparchus\, Apollonius of Perga\, Ennius\, an d Scipio Aemilianus.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence SUMMARY:Terence · 185–159 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-jabir-ibn-hayyan-q167852 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:07210101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:08160101 DESCRIPTION:Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān\, died c. 806−816\, is the p urported author of a large number of works in Arabic\, often called the Ja birian corpus. The c. 215 treatises that survive today mainly deal with alchemy and chemistry\, magic\, and Shi'ite religious philosophy. However\ , the original scope of the corpus was vast\, covering a wide range of top ics ranging from cosmology\, astronomy and astrology\, over medicine\, pha rmacology\, zoology and botany\, to metaphysics\, logic\, and grammar.\n\n 721 – 815\; died at about 93.\nAlive at the same time as Charlemagne\, M uḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi\, Ādi Shankara\, Abū Ḥanīfa\, and Li Bai.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabir_ibn_Hayyan SUMMARY:Jabir ibn Hayyan · 721–815 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-francois-villon-q849 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14310101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14650101 DESCRIPTION:François Villon is the best known French poet of the Late Midd le Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experie nces in his poems.\n\n1431 – 1464\; died at about 32.\nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci\, Christopher Columbus\, Mehmed II\, Pius II\, and Jan van Eyck.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Villon SUMMARY:François Villon · 1431–1464 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-shota-rustaveli-q132984 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:11720101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:12170101 DESCRIPTION:Shota Rustaveli\, known mononymously as Rustaveli\, was a medie val Georgian poet. He is considered to be the pre-eminent poet of the Geor gian Golden Age and one of the greatest contributors to Georgian literatur e. Rustaveli was the author of The Knight in the Panther's Skin\, a Georgi an national epic poem.\n\n1172 – 1216\; died at about 44.\nAlive at the same time as Genghis Khan\, Francis of Assisi\, Zhu Xi\, Fibonacci\, and S aladin.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shota_Rustaveli SUMMARY:Shota Rustaveli · 1172–1216 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-torquato-tasso-q168962 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15440321 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15950526 DESCRIPTION:Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century\, known for his 1581 poem Gerusalemme liberata\, in which he depicts a highly imag inative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end o f the First Crusade\, during the Siege of Jerusalem of 1099.\n\nMarch 21\, 1544 – May 25\, 1595\; died at 51.\nAlive at the same time as Michelang elo\, Francis Bacon\, Elizabeth I of England\, Johannes Kepler\, and Jacqu es Cartier.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torquato_Tasso SUMMARY:Torquato Tasso · 1544–1595 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-ludovico-ariosto-q48900 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14740917 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15340101 DESCRIPTION:Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet. He is best known as the a uthor of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516-1532). The poem\, a contin uation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato\, describes the advent ures of Charlemagne\, Orlando\, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions into many sideplots. The poem is transformed into a satire of the chivalric tradition. Ariosto composed the poem in the ott ava rima rhyme scheme and introduced narrative commentary throughout the w ork.\n\nSeptember 17\, 1474 – 1533\; died at about 58.\nAlive at the sam e time as Leonardo da Vinci\, Michelangelo\, Martin Luther\, Christopher C olumbus\, and Niccolò Machiavelli.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludov ico_Ariosto SUMMARY:Ludovico Ariosto · 1474–1533 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-nizami-ganjavi-q234908 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:11410101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:12030101 DESCRIPTION:Nizami Ganjavi\, Nizami Ganje'i\, Nizami\, or Nezāmi\, whose f ormal name was Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī\ , was a 12th-century poet. Nizami is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature\, who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic. His heritage is widely appreciated in Afghanistan\, Republic of Azerbaijan\, Iran\, the Kurdistan region and Tajikistan.\n\n11 41 – 1202\; died at about 60.\nAlive at the same time as Genghis Khan\, Francis of Assisi\, Zhu Xi\, Fibonacci\, and Saladin.\n\nhttps://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/Nizami_Ganjavi SUMMARY:Nizami Ganjavi · 1141–1202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-martial-q2098 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:00400301 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:01050101 DESCRIPTION:Marcus Valerius Martialis was a Roman poet born in Bilbilis\, H ispania\, best known for his twelve books of Epigrams\, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103\, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian\, Nerva and Trajan. In these poems he satirises city life and the scandalous acti vities of his acquaintances\, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. A total of 1\,561 epigrams written by him have survived\, of which 1\,235 are in elegiac couplets.\n\n40 – 104\; died at about 63.\nAlive at the s ame time as Paul the Apostle\, Plutarch\, Ptolemy\, Nero\, and Seneca.\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial SUMMARY:Martial · 40–104 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-leon-battista-alberti-q182046 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14040223 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14720404 DESCRIPTION:Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance humanist autho r\, artist\, architect\, poet\, priest\, linguist\, philosopher\, and cryp tographer\; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. He is considered the founder of European cryptography\, a claim he shares with Johannes Trithemius.\n\nFebruary 23\, 1404 – April 3\, 1472\; died at 68.\nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci\, Christopher Columbu s\, Joan of Arc\, Jan Hus\, and Jan van Eyck.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Leon_Battista_Alberti SUMMARY:Leon Battista Alberti · 1404–1472 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-jami-q312458 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14141116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14921119 DESCRIPTION:Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī\, also known as Mawlanā N ūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān or Abd-Al-Rahmān Nur-Al-Din Muhammad Dashti\, or simply as Jami or Djāmī and in Turkey as Molla Cami\, was a Sunni po et who is known for his achievements as a prolific scholar and writer of m ystical Sufi literature. He was primarily a prominent poet-theologian of t he school of Ibn Arabi and a Khwājagānī Sũfī\, recognized for his elo quence and for his analysis of the metaphysics of mercy. His most famous p oetic works are Haft Awrang\, Tuhfat al-Ahrar\, Layla wa Majnun\, Fatihat al-Shabab\, Lawa'ih\, Al-Durrah al-Fakhirah. Jami belonged to the Naqshban di Sufi order.\n\nNovember 16\, 1414 – November 18\, 1492\; died at 78.\ nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci\, Michelangelo\, Christopher Columbus\, Niccolò Machiavelli\, and Erasmus.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jami SUMMARY:Jami · 1414–1492 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-fuzuli-q178379 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14800101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15570101 DESCRIPTION:Muhammad bin Suleyman\, better known by his pen name Fuzuli\, w as a 16th-century poet who composed works in his native Azerbaijani\, as w ell as Persian and Arabic. He is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Turkic literature and a prominent figure in both Azerbaijani and Ottoman l iterature. Fuzuli's work was widely known and admired throughout the Turki c cultural landscape from the 16th to the 19th centuries\, with his fame r eaching as far as Central Asia and India.\n\n1480 – 1556\; died at about 76.\nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci\, Michelangelo\, Martin Luther\, Christopher Columbus\, and Niccolò Machiavelli.\n\nhttps://en.wi kipedia.org/wiki/Fuzuli_(poet) SUMMARY:Fuzuli · 1480–1556 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-petronius-q47180 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:00270101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:00670101 DESCRIPTION:Gaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman courtier during the reign o f Nero. He is generally believed to be the author of the Satyricon\, a sat irical novel believed to have been written during the Neronian era.\n\n27 – 66\; died at about 39.\nAlive at the same time as Paul the Apostle\, P lutarch\, Nero\, Seneca\, and Caligula.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P etronius SUMMARY:Petronius · 27–66 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-lucan-q188646 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:00391101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:00650429 DESCRIPTION:Marcus Annaeus Lucanus\, better known in English as Lucan\, was a Roman poet\, born in Corduba\, Hispania Baetica. He is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period\, known in particu lar for his epic Pharsalia. His youth and speed of composition set him apa rt from other poets.\n\nNovember 1\, 39 – April 28\, 65\; died at 25.\nA live at the same time as Paul the Apostle\, Plutarch\, Nero\, Seneca\, and Pliny the Elder.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucan SUMMARY:Lucan · 39–65 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-anacreon-q213484 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-05690101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-04830101 DESCRIPTION:Anacreon was an Ancient Greek lyric poet\, notable for his drin king songs and erotic poems. Later Greeks included him in the canonical li st of Nine Lyric Poets. Anacreon wrote all of his poetry in the ancient Io nic dialect. Like all early lyric poetry\, it was composed to be sung or r ecited to the accompaniment of music\, usually the lyre. Anacreon's poetry touched on universal themes of love\, infatuation\, disappointment\, reve lry\, parties\, festivals\, and the observations of everyday people and li fe.\n\n570 BC – 485 BC\; died at about 84.\nAlive at the same time as Co nfucius\, The Buddha\, Sun Tzu\, Sophocles\, and Pythagoras.\n\nhttps://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacreon SUMMARY:Anacreon · 570–485 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-henry-fielding-q34190 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17070422 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17541009 DESCRIPTION:Henry Fielding was an English writer and judge known for the us e of humour and satire in his works. His famous novels include Shamela (17 41)\, Joseph Andrews (1742)\, The History of Tom Jones\, a Foundling (1749 ) and Amelia (1751). Along with Samuel Richardson\, Fielding is seen as th e founder of the traditional English novel. As well as being a novelist\, Fielding was also a playwright\, known for his satirical comedies The Auth or's Farce (1730)\, Tom Thumb (1730)\, The Letter Writers (1731) and The T ragedy of Tragedies (1731). He also played an important role in the histor y of law enforcement in the United Kingdom\, using his authority as a magi strate to found the Bow Street Runners\, London's first professional polic e force.\n\nApril 22\, 1707 – October 8\, 1754\; died at 47.\nAlive at t he same time as Isaac Newton\, George Washington\, Johann Sebastian Bach\, Immanuel Kant\, and Voltaire.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fiel ding SUMMARY:Henry Fielding · 1707–1754 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-snorri-sturluson-q102323 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:11790101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:12411001 DESCRIPTION:Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic historian\, poet\, knight\, a nd politician. He was elected twice as lawspeaker of the Icelandic parliam ent\, the Althing. He is commonly thought to have authored or compiled por tions of the Prose Edda\, which is a major source for what is today known about Norse mythology and alliterative verse\, and Heimskringla\, a histor y of the Norse kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history. For stylistic an d methodological reasons\, Snorri is often taken to be the author of Egil' s Saga. He was assassinated in 1241 by men claiming to be agents of the Ki ng of Norway.\n\n1179 – September 30\, 1241\; died at about 62.\nAlive a t the same time as Genghis Khan\, Thomas Aquinas\, Francis of Assisi\, Fib onacci\, and Rumi.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snorri_Sturluson SUMMARY:Snorri Sturluson · 1179–1241 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-christine-de-pizan-q234816 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:13640919 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14310101 DESCRIPTION:Christine de Pizan or Pisan\, was a Venetian-born French court writer for King Charles VI of France and several French royal dukes\, in b oth prose and poetry. She wrote in French\, having been raised in France t o parents who came from Bologna. Her father was invited to the French cour t in 1368\, when Christine was only four years old\, to serve as a doctor and astrologer. He insisted that his daughter learn philosophy\, Latin\, I talian\, French\, history\, literature\, and science\, which was very unus ual for the time.\n\nSeptember 19\, 1364 – 1430\; died at about 65.\nAli ve at the same time as Joan of Arc\, Johannes Gutenberg\, Ibn Battuta\, Ja n Hus\, and Jan van Eyck.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_de_Pi zan SUMMARY:Christine de Pizan · 1364–1430 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-amir-khusrau-q207817 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:12530101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:13251006 DESCRIPTION:Abu'l Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau\, better known as Amīr Khus rau\, sometimes spelled as Amir Khusrow or Amir Khusro\, was an Indo-Persi an Sufi singer\, musician\, court poet and scholar\, who lived during the period of the Delhi Sultanate.\n\n1253 – October 5\, 1325\; died at abou t 72.\nAlive at the same time as Marco Polo\, Thomas Aquinas\, Kublai Khan \, William of Ockham\, and Giotto.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_K husrau SUMMARY:Amir Khusrau · 1253–1325 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-laurence-sterne-q218960 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17131124 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17680319 DESCRIPTION:Laurence Sterne was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric . He is best known for his comic novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy\, Gentleman (1759–1767) and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768).\n\nNovember 24\, 1713 – March 18\, 1768\; died at 54.\ nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, George Washington\, Wolfgang Ama deus Mozart\, Immanuel Kant\, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.\n\nhttps://e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sterne SUMMARY:Laurence Sterne · 1713–1768 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-theocritus-q219484 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-03511231 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-02580101 DESCRIPTION:Theocritus was a Greek poet from Sicily\, Magna Graecia\, and t he creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.\n\nc. 400 BC – 260 BC\; die d at about 141.\nAlive at the same time as Aristotle\, Alexander the Great \, Archimedes\, Apelles\, and Euclid.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The ocritus SUMMARY:Theocritus · c. 400–260 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-ignatius-of-antioch-q44170 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:00350101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:01090101 DESCRIPTION:Ignatius of Antioch\, also known as Ignatius Theophorus\, was a n early Christian writer and the Patriarch of Antioch. While en route to R ome\, where he was to be killed\, Ignatius wrote a series of letters. This correspondence forms a central part of a later collection of works by the Apostolic Fathers. He is considered one of the three most important of th ese\, together with Clement of Rome and Polycarp. Although the authenticit y of his letters has been questioned\, they continue to serve as an exampl e of early Christian theology\, and address important topics including ecc lesiology\, the sacraments\, and the role of bishops.\n\n35 – 108\; died at about 72.\nAlive at the same time as Paul the Apostle\, Plutarch\, Pto lemy\, Nero\, and Seneca.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_of_Ant ioch SUMMARY:Ignatius of Antioch · 35–108 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-chretien-de-troyes-q4302 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:11341231 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:11850101 DESCRIPTION:Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet and trouvère known for h is writing on Arthurian subjects such as Gawain\, Lancelot\, Perceval\, an d the Holy Grail. Chrétien's chivalric romances\, including Erec and Enid e\, Lancelot\, Perceval\, and Yvain\, represent some of the best-regarded works of medieval literature. His use of structure\, particularly in Yvain \, has been seen as a step toward the modern novel.\n\nc. 1130 – c. 1180 \; died at about 49.\nAlive at the same time as Genghis Khan\, Zhu Xi\, Fi bonacci\, Bernard of Clairvaux\, and Saladin.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Chr%C3%A9tien_de_Troyes SUMMARY:Chrétien de Troyes · c. 1130–c. 1180 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-baltasar-gracian-q360512 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16010108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16581207 DESCRIPTION:Baltasar Gracián y Morales\, better known as Baltasar Gracián \, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. H e was born in Belmonte\, near Calatayud (Aragón). His writings were laude d by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.\nHe is best known for his book The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)\, but his novel El Criticón (1651-57) is considere d his greatest work.\n\nJanuary 8\, 1601 – December 6\, 1658\; died at 5 7.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, René Descartes\, Rembrandt\, Louis XIV of France\, and William Shakespeare.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Baltasar_Graci%C3%A1n SUMMARY:Baltasar Gracián · 1601–1658 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-ramon-llull-q193660 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:12320101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:13170101 DESCRIPTION:Ramon Llull\, sometimes anglicized as Raymond Lully\, was a Cat holic philosopher\, theologian\, poet\, missionary\, apologist and former knight\, born in Palma de Mallorca. He invented a philosophical system kno wn as the Art\, conceived as a type of universal logic to prove the truth of Christian doctrine to interlocutors of all faiths and nationalities. Th e Art consists of a set of general principles and combinatorial operations . It is illustrated with diagrams.\n\n1232 – 1316\; died at about 84.\nA live at the same time as Marco Polo\, Thomas Aquinas\, Fibonacci\, Kublai Khan\, and William of Ockham.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull SUMMARY:Ramon Llull · 1232–1316 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-tibullus-q109598 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-00540101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-00170101 DESCRIPTION:Albius Tibullus was a Latin poet and writer of elegies. His fir st and second books of poetry are extant\; many other texts attributed to him are of questionable origins.\n\n55 BC – 19 BC\; died at about 36.\nA live at the same time as Julius Caesar\, Strabo\, Virgil\, Augustus\, and Cicero.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibullus SUMMARY:Tibullus · 55–19 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-marcus-terentius-varro-q206119 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-01150101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-00250101 DESCRIPTION:Marcus Terentius Varro was a Roman polymath and a prolific auth or. He is regarded as ancient Rome's greatest scholar\, and was described by Petrarch as "the third great light of Rome". He is sometimes called Var ro Reatinus to distinguish him from his younger contemporary Varro Atacinu s.\n\n116 BC – 27 BC\; died at about 88.\nAlive at the same time as Juli us Caesar\, Strabo\, Aglaonike\, Virgil\, and Augustus.\n\nhttps://en.wiki pedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Terentius_Varro SUMMARY:Marcus Terentius Varro · 116–27 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-propertius-q8827 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-00460101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-00140101 DESCRIPTION:Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age. He was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium and died shortly after 15 BC.\n \n47 BC – 16 BC\; died at about 31.\nAlive at the same time as Augustus\ , Strabo\, Virgil\, Ovid\, and Cleopatra.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Propertius SUMMARY:Propertius · 47–16 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-ennius-q47130 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-02380712 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-01681006 DESCRIPTION:Quintus Ennius was a writer and poet who lived during the Roman Republic. He is often considered the father of Roman poetry. He was born in the small town of Rudiae\, located near modern Lecce\, a town founded b y the Messapians\, and could speak Greek as well as Latin and Oscan. Altho ugh only fragments of his works survive\, his influence in Latin literatur e was significant\, particularly in his use of Greek literary models.\n\nJ uly 12\, 239 BC – October 5\, 169 BC\; died at 70.\nAlive at the same ti me as Archimedes\, Qin Shi Huang\, Xunzi\, Hannibal\, and Eratosthenes.\n\ nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennius SUMMARY:Ennius · 239–169 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-sei-shonagon-q231603 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:09660101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:10260101 DESCRIPTION:Sei Shōnagon \, or Seijo \, was a Japanese author\, poet\, and court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000\, during the middle Heian period. She is the author of The Pillow Book .\n\n 966 – 1025\; died at about 59.\nAlive at the same time as Avicenna\, Lei f Erikson\, Sylvester II\, Vladimir the Great\, and Murasaki Shikibu.\n\nh ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sei_Sh%C5%8Dnagon SUMMARY:Sei Shōnagon · 966–1025 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-rudaki-q312954 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:08590101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:09420101 DESCRIPTION:Rudaki was a poet\, singer\, and musician who is regarded as th e first major poet to write in New Persian. A court poet under the Samanid s\, he reportedly composed more than 180\,000 verses\, yet only a small po rtion of his work has survived\, most notably parts of his versification o f the Kalīla wa-Dimna\, an Arabic translation of Panchatantra.\n\n859 – 941\; died at about 82.\nAlive at the same time as Alfred the Great\, Far abi\, Abu Bakr al-Razi\, Al-Kindi\, and Charles the Bald.\n\nhttps://en.wi kipedia.org/wiki/Rudaki SUMMARY:Rudaki · 859–941 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-ali-shir-nava-i-q503340 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14410218 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15010114 DESCRIPTION:Ali-Shir Nava'i\, also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Heraw ī was a Timurid poet\, writer\, statesman\, linguist\, Hanafi Maturidi my stic and painter who was the greatest representative of Chagatai literatur e.\n\nFebruary 18\, 1441 – January 13\, 1501\; died at 59.\nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci\, Michelangelo\, Martin Luther\, Christoph er Columbus\, and Niccolò Machiavelli.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A li-Shir_Nava%27i SUMMARY:Ali-Shir Nava'i · 1441–1501 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-attar-of-nishapur-q194091 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:11450301 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:12210504 DESCRIPTION:Faridoddin Abu Hamed Mohammad Attar Nishapuri\, better known by his pen-names Faridoddin (فریدالدین) and Attar of Nishapur\, or simply Attar\, was an Iranian poet\, theoretician of Sufism\, and hagiogra pher from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poe try\, on poet Rumi\, and on Sufism. He wrote a collection of lyrical poems and number of long poems in the philosophical tradition of Islamic mystic ism\, as well as a prose work with biographies and sayings of famous Musli m mystics. The Conference of the Birds\, Book of the Divine\, and Memorial of the Saints are among his best known works.\n\n1145 – May 3\, 1221\; died at about 76.\nAlive at the same time as Genghis Khan\, Francis of Ass isi\, Zhu Xi\, Fibonacci\, and Rumi.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atta r_of_Nishapur SUMMARY:Attar of Nishapur · 1145–1221 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-etienne-de-la-boetie-q290227 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15301111 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15630829 DESCRIPTION:Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie was a French magistrate\, cl assicist\, writer\, poet and political theorist\, best remembered for his relationship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. His early political treati se Discourse on Voluntary Servitude was posthumously adopted by the Huguen ot movement and is sometimes seen as an early influence on modern anti-sta tist\, utopian and civil disobedience thought.\n\nNovember 11\, 1530 – A ugust 28\, 1563\; died at 32.\nAlive at the same time as Michelangelo\, Ma rtin Luther\, Nicolaus Copernicus\, Elizabeth I of England\, and Jacques C artier.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_de_La_Bo%C3%A9tie SUMMARY:Étienne de La Boétie · 1530–1563 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-cyrano-de-bergerac-q213614 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16190306 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16550729 DESCRIPTION:Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French novelist\, playwrig ht\, epistolarian\, and duelist.\n\nMarch 6\, 1619 – July 28\, 1655\; di ed at 36.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, René Descartes\, Remb randt\, Louis XIV of France\, and Molière.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/Cyrano_de_Bergerac SUMMARY:Cyrano de Bergerac · 1619–1655 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-publilius-syrus-q363375 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-00511231 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-00500101 DESCRIPTION:Publilius Syrus was a Latin writer\, best known for his sentent iae. He was a Roman Syrian from Antioch who was brought as a slave to Roma n Italy. Syrus was brought to Rome on the same ship that brought a certain Manilius Antiochus\, astronomer\, and Staberius Eros the grammarian. By h is wit and talent\, Syrus won the favour of his master\, who granted him m anumission and educated him. He became a member of the Publilia gens. Publ ilius' name\, due to the palatalization of 'l' between two 'i's in the Ear ly Middle Ages\, is often presented by manuscripts in corrupt form as 'Pub lius'\, Publius being a very common Roman praenomen.\n\nc. 100 BC – c. 1 00 BC\; died at about 0.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publilius_Syrus SUMMARY:Publilius Syrus · c. 100–c. 100 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-archilochus-of-paros-q201323 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-06870101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-06430101 DESCRIPTION:Archilochus was an iambic poet of the Archaic period from the i sland of Paros. He is celebrated for his versatile and innovative use of p oetic meters\, and is the earliest known Greek author to compose almost en tirely on the theme of his own emotions and experiences.\n\n688 BC – 645 BC\; died at about 42.\nAlive at the same time as Ashurbanipal\, Micah\, Hesiod\, and Esarhaddon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archilochus SUMMARY:Archilochus of Paros · 688–645 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-cyprian-q190240 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:02000101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:02590101 DESCRIPTION:Cyprian was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer of Berber descent\, many of whose Latin works are extant. He is recognized as a saint in the Western and Eastern churches.\n\n200 – 258\; died at about 58.\nAlive at the same time as Nagarjuna\, Tertullian\, Septimius Se verus\, Diophantus of Alexandria\, and Plotinus.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/Cyprian SUMMARY:Cyprian · 200–258 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-callimachus-q192417 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-03190101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-02380101 DESCRIPTION:Callimachus was an ancient Greek poet\, scholar\, and librarian who was active in Alexandria during the 3rd century BC. A representative of Ancient Greek literature of the Hellenistic period\, he wrote over 800 literary works\, most of which do not survive\, in a wide variety of genre s. He espoused an aesthetic philosophy\, known as Callimacheanism\, which exerted a strong influence on poets of the Roman Empire and\, through thei r reception\, on later Western literature.\n\n320 BC – 240 BC\; died at about 80.\nAlive at the same time as Archimedes\, Qin Shi Huang\, Epicurus \, Apelles\, and Euclid.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callimachus SUMMARY:Callimachus · 320–240 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-alcuin-q154332 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:07240101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:08050101 DESCRIPTION:Alcuin of York\, also called Ealhwine\, Alhwin\, or Alchoin\, w as an Anglo-Saxon scholar\, clergyman\, poet\, and teacher from York\, Nor thumbria\, who was active in the Carolingian Empire in the 8th century. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York. At the invitation of Charlemagne\, he became a leading scholar and teache r at the Carolingian court\, where he remained a figure in the 780s and 79 0s. Before that\, he was also a court chancellor in Aachen. "The most lear ned man anywhere to be found"\, according to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne \, he is considered among the most important intellectual architects of th e Carolingian Renaissance. Among his pupils were many of the dominant inte llectuals of the Carolingian era.\n\n724 – 804\; died at about 80.\nAliv e at the same time as Charlemagne\, Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi\, Ād i Shankara\, Abū Ḥanīfa\, and Li Bai.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Alcuin SUMMARY:Alcuin · 724–804 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-simonides-of-ceos-q273003 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-05550101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-04660101 DESCRIPTION:Simonides of Ceos was a Greek lyric poet\, born in Ioulis on Ce os. The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria included him in the canonical l ist of the nine lyric poets esteemed by them as worthy of critical study. Included on this list were Bacchylides\, his nephew\, and Pindar\, reputed ly a bitter rival\, both of whom benefited from his innovative approach to lyric poetry. Simonides\, however\, was more involved than either in the major events and with the personalities of their times.\n\n556 BC – 468 BC\; died at about 88.\nAlive at the same time as Confucius\, The Buddha\, Sun Tzu\, Sophocles\, and Pythagoras.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si monides_of_Ceos SUMMARY:Simonides of Ceos · 556–468 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-rabia-of-basri-q256506 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:07141231 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:08020101 DESCRIPTION:Rābiʼa al-ʼAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya or Rabia Basri was a poet\, one of the earliest Sufi mystics and an influential religious figure from Basra. Her full name is said to be Rābiʿa bint Ismāʿīl\; her kunya wa s Umm ʿAmr\, her wilāya was al-ʿAtakiyyah\, and her nisba was al-ʿAdaw iyya or al-Qaysīyya because she was a freed slave of the tribe of Qays ib n ʿAdī. She is regarded as one of the three preeminent Qalandars of the world.\n\nc. 710 – 801\; died at about 91.\nAlive at the same time as Ch arlemagne\, Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi\, Ādi Shankara\, Abū Ḥan īfa\, and Li Bai.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabia_Basri SUMMARY:Rabia of Basri · c. 710–801 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-mansur-al-hallaj-q172862 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:08580101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:09220327 DESCRIPTION:Mansour al-Hallaj\, also known as Mansour Hallaj\, was a Muslim mystic\, poet\, preacher\, and teacher of Sufism\, and one of the most co ntroversial figures in Islamic history. During his lifetime he attracted a large popular following and was acclaimed as a saint by many ordinary bel ievers\, while Muslim jurists condemned him as a heretic. Most of his cont emporary Sufis likewise disapproved of his actions\, although he later bec ame a major figure in the Sufi tradition.\n\n858 – March 26\, 922\; died at about 64.\nAlive at the same time as Alfred the Great\, Farabi\, Abu B akr al-Razi\, Al-Kindi\, and Charles the Bald.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al-Hallaj SUMMARY:Mansur Al-Hallaj · 858–922 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-apollonius-of-rhodes-q192638 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-02940101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-02130101 DESCRIPTION:Apollonius of Rhodes was an ancient Greek author\, best known f or the Argonautica\, an epic poem about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. The poem is one of the few extant examples of the epic genre and it was both innovative and influential\, providing Pto lemaic Egypt with a "cultural mnemonic" or national "archive of images"\, and offering the Latin poets Virgil and Gaius Valerius Flaccus a model for their own epics. His other poems\, which survive only in small fragments\ , concerned the beginnings or foundations of cities\, such as Alexandria a nd Cnidus\, which were places of interest to the Ptolemies\, whom he serve d as a scholar and librarian at the Library of Alexandria. A literary disp ute with Callimachus\, another Alexandrian librarian/poet\, is a topic muc h discussed by modern scholars since it is thought to give some insight in to their poetry\, although there is very little evidence that there ever w as such a dispute between the two men. In fact\, almost nothing at all is known about Apollonius and even his connection with Rhodes is a matter for speculation. Once considered a mere imitator of Homer\, and therefore a f ailure as a poet\, his reputation has been enhanced by recent studies\, wi th an emphasis on the special characteristics of Hellenistic poets as scho larly heirs of a long literary tradition writing at a unique time in histo ry.\n\n295 BC – 215 BC\; died at about 80.\nAlive at the same time as Ar chimedes\, Qin Shi Huang\, Epicurus\, Euclid\, and Ashoka.\n\nhttps://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonius_of_Rhodes SUMMARY:Apollonius of Rhodes · 295–215 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-stephen-crane-q206534 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18711101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19010101 DESCRIPTION:Stephen Crane was an American poet\, novelist\, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life\, he wrote notable works in th e Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and I mpressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innova tive writers of his generation.\n\nNovember 1\, 1871 – 1900\; died at ab out 28.\nAlive at the same time as Adolf Hitler\, Albert Einstein\, Karl M arx\, Vincent van Gogh\, and Leo Tolstoy.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Stephen_Crane SUMMARY:Stephen Crane · 1871–1900 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-zeami-motokiyo-q169352 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:13630101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14430911 DESCRIPTION:Zeami Motokiyo \, also called Kanze Motokiyo \, was a Japanese aesthetician\, actor\, and playwright.\n\n1363 – September 10\, 1443\; d ied at about 80.\nAlive at the same time as Joan of Arc\, Johannes Gutenbe rg\, Ibn Battuta\, Jan Hus\, and Jan van Eyck.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zeami_Motokiyo SUMMARY:Zeami Motokiyo · 1363–1443 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-alcaeus-of-mytilene-q212872 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-05990101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-05580101 DESCRIPTION:Alcaeus of Mytilene was a lyric poet from the Greek island of L esbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Ale xandria. He was a contemporary of Sappho\, with whom he may have exchanged poems. He was born into the aristocratic governing class of Mytilene\, th e main city of Lesbos\, where he was involved in political disputes and fe uds.\n\n600 BC – 560 BC\; died at about 40.\nAlive at the same time as P ythagoras\, Cyrus the Great\, Zoroaster\, Thales\, and Sappho.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcaeus SUMMARY:Alcaeus of Mytilene · 600–560 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-al-ma-arri-q277073 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:09731201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:10570516 DESCRIPTION:Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri\, also known by his Latin name Abulola Mo arrensis\, was an Arab philosopher\, poet\, and writer from Ma'arrat al-Nu 'man\, Emirate of Aleppo. Al-Ma'arri's religious beliefs and philosophical worldview have been the subject of extensive historical and modern academ ic debate. While his critical poetry led detractors and early Western scho lars to characterize him as a deist\, freethinker\, or one of the "foremos t atheists" of his time\, this categorization is highly disputed by other scholars and by Al-Ma'arri's own subsequent writings. In his self-defensiv e treatise Zajr al-Nabeh\, al-Ma'arri explicitly affirmed his orthodox Isl amic faith—including his belief in the Day of Judgment—and sought refu ge in God from claims that his poetry was proof of atheism. In these texts \, he clarified that his verses were not a rejection of Islam itself\, but rather harsh critiques directed at the corruption of religious scholars\, hypocritical practices\, and the theological ignorance of his contemporar ies.\n\n973 – May 15\, 1057\; died at about 83.\nAlive at the same time as Avicenna\, William the Conqueror\, Leif Erikson\, Anselm of Canterbury\ , and Murasaki Shikibu.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ma%27arri SUMMARY:al-Ma'arri · 973–1057 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-qu-yuan-q313330 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-03420101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-02760101 DESCRIPTION:Qu Yuan was a Chinese poet and political figure of the State of Chu during the Warring States period.\n\n343 BC – 278 BC\; died at abou t 64.\nAlive at the same time as Aristotle\, Alexander the Great\, Euclid\ , Apelles\, and Ashoka.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qu_Yuan SUMMARY:Qu Yuan · 343–278 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-publius-papinius-statius-q243203 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:00400101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:00970101 DESCRIPTION:Publius Papinius Statius was a Latin poet of the 1st century CE . His surviving poetry includes an epic in twelve books\, the Thebaid\; a collection of occasional poetry\, the Silvae\; and an unfinished epic\, th e Achilleid. He is also known for his appearance as a guide in the Purgato ry section of Dante's epic poem\, the Divine Comedy.\n\n40 – 96\; died a t about 56.\nAlive at the same time as Paul the Apostle\, Plutarch\, Ptole my\, Nero\, and Seneca.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statius SUMMARY:Publius Papinius Statius · 40–96 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-ausonius-q234593 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:03090101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:03930101 DESCRIPTION:Decimus Magnus Ausonius was a Roman poet and teacher of rhetori c from Burdigala\, Aquitaine. For a time\, he was tutor to the future Empe ror Gratian\, who afterwards bestowed the consulship on him. His best-know n poems are Mosella\, a description of the River Moselle\, and Ephemeris\, an account of a typical day in his life. His many other verses show his c oncern for his family\, friends\, teachers and circle of well-to-do acquai ntances and his delight in the technical handling of meter.\n\n309 – 392 \; died at about 82.\nAlive at the same time as Augustine of Hippo\, Const antine the Great\, Hypatia\, Pappus of Alexandria\, and Jerome.\n\nhttps:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ausonius SUMMARY:Ausonius · 309–392 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-baldassarre-castiglione-q211133 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14781215 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15300101 DESCRIPTION:Baldassare Castiglione\, Count of Casatico\, was an Italian cou rtier\, diplomat\, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author.\n\nDecember 15\, 1478 – 1529\; died at about 50.\nAlive at the same time as Leonard o da Vinci\, Michelangelo\, Martin Luther\, Christopher Columbus\, and Nic colò Machiavelli.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldassare_Castiglione SUMMARY:Baldassarre Castiglione · 1478–1529 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-yunus-emre-q378902 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:12410101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:13220101 DESCRIPTION:Yunus Emre\, also known as Derviş Yûnus\, was a Turkish folk poet and Sufi who greatly influenced Turkish culture. The UNESCO General C onference unanimously passed a resolution declaring 1991\, the 750th anniv ersary of the poet's birth\, International Yunus Emre Year.\n\n1241 – 13 21\; died at about 80.\nAlive at the same time as Marco Polo\, Thomas Aqui nas\, Kublai Khan\, William of Ockham\, and Giotto.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Yunus_Emre SUMMARY:Yunus Emre · 1241–1321 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-livius-andronicus-q193058 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-02790101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-01980101 DESCRIPTION:Lucius Livius Andronicus was a Greco-Roman dramatist\, actor\, and epic poet of the Old Latin period during the Roman Republic.\n\n280 BC – 200 BC\; died at about 80.\nAlive at the same time as Archimedes\, Qi n Shi Huang\, Epicurus\, Ashoka\, and Hannibal.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Livius_Andronicus SUMMARY:Livius Andronicus · 280–200 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-wolfram-von-eschenbach-q18821 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:11700101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:12210101 DESCRIPTION:Wolfram von Eschenbach was a German knight\, poet and composer\ , regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of medieval German literature . As a Minnesinger\, he also wrote lyric poetry.\n\n1170 – 1220\; died a t about 49.\nAlive at the same time as Genghis Khan\, Francis of Assisi\, Zhu Xi\, Fibonacci\, and Rumi.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_vo n_Eschenbach SUMMARY:Wolfram von Eschenbach · 1170–1220 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-al-jahiz-q293497 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:07750101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:08690101 DESCRIPTION:Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Basri\, commonly known as al-Jahiz\, was a Muslim theologian\, intellectual\, and litterateur known for his Arabic prose works. A polymath who lived during the Abbasid Calip hate\, he was the author of works of literature\, theology\, zoology\, phi losophy\, grammar\, dialectics\, rhetoric\, philology\, linguistics\, and politico-religious polemics. His extensive zoological work has been credit ed with describing principles related to natural selection\, ethology\, an d the functions of an ecosystem.\n\n775 – 868\; died at about 93.\nAlive at the same time as Charlemagne\, Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi\, Ādi Shankara\, Al-Shafi'i\, and Abu Nuwas.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A l-Jahiz SUMMARY:Al-Jahiz · 775–868 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-seneca-the-elder-q273671 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-00530101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:00400101 DESCRIPTION:Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Elder\, also known as Seneca the Rhet orician\, was a Roman writer\, born of a wealthy equestrian family of Cord uba\, Hispania. He wrote a collection of reminiscences about the Roman sch ools of rhetoric\, six books of which are extant in a more or less complet e state and five others in epitome only. His principal work\, a history of Roman affairs from the beginning of the civil wars until the last years o f his life\, is almost entirely lost to posterity. Seneca lived through th e reigns of three significant emperors\; Augustus\, Tiberius and Caligula. He was the father of Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus\, best known as a Pro consul of Achaia\; his second son was the dramatist and Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger (Lucius)\, who was tutor of Nero\, and his third son\, Marcus Annaeus Mela\, became the father of the poet Lucan.\n\n54 BC – 39 \; died at about 92.\nAlive at the same time as Jesus Christ\, Julius Caes ar\, Seneca\, Virgil\, and Augustus.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sene ca_the_Elder SUMMARY:Seneca the Elder · 54 BC–39 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-pietro-aretino-q296272 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14920428 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15561101 DESCRIPTION:Pietro Aretino was an Italian author\, playwright\, poet\, sati rist and blackmailer\, who wielded influence on contemporary art and polit ics. He was one of the most influential writers of his time and an outspok en critic of the powerful. He gained prominence through his politically ch arged writings and biting satire\, which targeted powerful figures\, inclu ding monarchs and popes. His works spanned various genres\, including poet ry\, drama\, and religious commentary\, but he is particularly noted for h is lampoons and erotic literature. Owing to his communications and sympath ies with religious reformers\, he is considered to have been a Nicodemite Protestant.\n\nApril 28\, 1492 – October 31\, 1556\; died at 64.\nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci\, Michelangelo\, Martin Luther\, Chr istopher Columbus\, and Niccolò Machiavelli.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Pietro_Aretino SUMMARY:Pietro Aretino · 1492–1556 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-solomon-ibn-gabirol-q239355 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:10200101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:10590101 DESCRIPTION:Solomon ibn Gabirol or Solomon ben Judah was an 11th-century Je wish poet and philosopher in the neoplatonic tradition in Al-Andalus. He p ublished over a hundred poems\, as well as works of Hebrew Biblical exeges is\, philosophy\, ethics\, and satire. One source credits ibn Gabirol with creating a golem\, possibly female\, for household chores.\n\n1020 – 10 58\; died at about 38.\nAlive at the same time as Avicenna\, William the C onqueror\, Anselm of Canterbury\, Omar Khayyám\, and Murasaki Shikibu.\n\ nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_ibn_Gabirol SUMMARY:Solomon ibn Gabirol · 1020–1058 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-francesco-guicciardini-q44601 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14830315 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15400602 DESCRIPTION:Francesco Guicciardini was an Italian historian and statesman. A friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli\, he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance. In his masterpiece\, T he History of Italy\, Guicciardini paved the way for a new style in histor iography with his use of government sources to support arguments and the r ealistic analysis of the people and events of his time.\n\nMarch 15\, 1483 – June 1\, 1540\; died at 57.\nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da Vi nci\, Michelangelo\, Martin Luther\, Christopher Columbus\, and Niccolò M achiavelli.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Guicciardini SUMMARY:Francesco Guicciardini · 1483–1540 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-han-yu-q318998 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:07680101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:08241230 DESCRIPTION:Han Yu\, courtesy name Tuizhi\, and commonly known by his posth umous name Han Wengong (韓文公)\, was an essayist\, Confucian scholar\, poet\, and government official during the Tang dynasty who significantly influenced the development of Neo-Confucianism. Described as "comparable i n stature to Dante\, Shakespeare or Goethe" for his influence on the Chine se literary tradition\, Han Yu stood for strong central authority in polit ics and orthodoxy in cultural matters.\n\n768 – December 29\, 824\; died at about 56.\nAlive at the same time as Charlemagne\, Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi\, Ādi Shankara\, Ahmad ibn Hanbal\, and Abu Nuwas.\n\nhttps ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Yu SUMMARY:Han Yu · 768–824 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-wang-wei-q313605 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:06990101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:07610901 DESCRIPTION:Wang Wei\, courtesy name Mojie\, was a Chinese musician\, paint er\, poet\, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty. He is regarded as o ne of the most distinguished men of arts and letters of his era. About 400 of his poems survived and 29 of them are included in the 18th-century ant hology Three Hundred Tang Poems. A large portion of his finest poems drew inspirations from the local landscape.\n\n699 – 761\; died at about 62.\ nAlive at the same time as Charlemagne\, Abū Ḥanīfa\, Li Bai\, Du Fu\, and Jabir ibn Hayyan.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Wei SUMMARY:Wang Wei · 699–761 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-su-shi-q36020 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:10370114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:11010901 DESCRIPTION:Su Shi\, courtesy name Zizhan (子瞻)\, art name Householder D ongpo (東坡居士)\, was a Chinese literatus\, scholar-official\, poet\, writer\, calligrapher\, painter and gastronomist of the Song dynasty. Bor n into a prominent literary family in Meizhou\, he was the son of Su Xun a nd brother of Su Zhe. Despite ambitions for high office\, he became a repe ated target in factional struggles between reformers and conservatives at the court\, and he spent much of his career in exile\, periods during whic h his literary output flourished.\n\nJanuary 14\, 1037 – August 31\, 110 1\; died at 64.\nAlive at the same time as Omar Khayyám\, William the Con queror\, Peter Abelard\, Anselm of Canterbury\, and Bernard of Clairvaux.\ n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_Shi SUMMARY:Su Shi · 1037–1101 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-aulus-gellius-q294800 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:01230101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:01660101 DESCRIPTION:Aulus Gellius was a Roman author and grammarian\, who was proba bly born and certainly brought up in Rome. He was educated in Athens\, aft er which he returned to Rome. He is famous for his Attic Nights\, a common place book\, or compilation of notes on grammar\, philosophy\, history\, a ntiquarianism\, and other subjects\, preserving fragments of the works of many authors who might otherwise be unknown today.\n\n123 – 165\; died a t about 42.\nAlive at the same time as Marcus Aurelius\, Ptolemy\, Nagarju na\, Tertullian\, and Hadrian.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aulus_Gell ius SUMMARY:Aulus Gellius · 123–165 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-tatian-q272087 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:01200101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:01740101 DESCRIPTION:Tatian of Adiabene\, or Tatian the Syrian or Tatian the Assyria n\, was an Assyrian Christian writer and theologian of the 2nd century.\n\ n120 – 173\; died at about 53.\nAlive at the same time as Marcus Aureliu s\, Ptolemy\, Nagarjuna\, Tertullian\, and Hadrian.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Tatian SUMMARY:Tatian · 120–173 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-nasir-khusraw-q328796 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:10040909 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:10890101 DESCRIPTION:Nasir Khusraw was an Iranian Isma'ili poet\, philosopher\, trav eler\, and missionary for the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate.\n\nSeptember 9\, 1004 – 1088\; died at about 83.\nAlive at the same time as Avicenna\, W illiam the Conqueror\, Leif Erikson\, Anselm of Canterbury\, and Judah Hal evi.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir_Khusraw SUMMARY:Nasir Khusraw · 1004–1088 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-gnaeus-naevius-q212667 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-02740101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-01990101 DESCRIPTION:Gnaeus Naevius was a Roman epic poet and dramatist of the Old L atin period. He had a notable literary career at Rome until his satiric co mments delivered in comedy angered the Metellus family\, one of whom was c onsul. After a sojourn in prison he recanted and was set free by the tribu nes. After a second offense he was exiled to Tunisia\, where he wrote his own epitaph and committed suicide. His comedies were in the genre of Palli ata Comoedia\, an adaptation of Greek New Comedy. A soldier in the Punic W ars\, he was highly patriotic\, inventing a new genre called Praetextae Fa bulae\, an extension of tragedy to Roman national figures or incidents\, n amed after the Toga praetexta worn by high officials. Of his writings ther e survive only fragments of several poems preserved in the citations of la te ancient grammarians.\n\n275 BC – 201 BC\; died at about 73.\nAlive at the same time as Archimedes\, Qin Shi Huang\, Zeno of Citium\, Ashoka\, a nd Hannibal.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnaeus_Naevius SUMMARY:Gnaeus Naevius · 275–201 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-agnolo-poliziano-q250414 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14540723 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14941009 DESCRIPTION:Agnolo Ambrogini\, commonly known as Angelo Poliziano or simply Poliziano\, anglicized as Politian\, was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. His scholarship was instrumental in t he divergence of Renaissance Latin from medieval norms and for development s in philology. His nickname Poliziano\, by which he is chiefly identified to the present day\, was derived from the Latin name of his birthplace\, Montepulciano.\n\nJuly 23\, 1454 – October 8\, 1494\; died at 40.\nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci\, Michelangelo\, Martin Luther\, Ch ristopher Columbus\, and Niccolò Machiavelli.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poliziano SUMMARY:Agnolo Poliziano · 1454–1494 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-aratus-q180671 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-03140101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-02380101 DESCRIPTION:Aratus was a Greek didactic poet. His major extant work is his hexameter poem Phenomena\, the first half of which is a verse setting of a lost work of the same name by Eudoxus of Cnidus. It describes the constel lations and other celestial phenomena. The second half is called the Diose meia\, and is chiefly about weather lore. Although Aratus was somewhat ign orant of Greek astronomy\, his poem was very popular in the Greek and Roma n world\, as is proven by the large number of commentaries and Latin trans lations\, some of which survive.\n\n315 BC – 240 BC\; died at about 75.\ nAlive at the same time as Archimedes\, Qin Shi Huang\, Epicurus\, Euclid\ , and Ashoka.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aratus SUMMARY:Aratus · 315–240 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-berossus-q312425 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-03511231 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-02500101 DESCRIPTION:Berossus or Berosus was an early-3rd-century BC Hellenistic-era Babylonian writer\, priest of Bel Marduk\, and astronomer who wrote in th e Koine Greek language.\n\nc. 400 BC – c. 300 BC\; died at about 100.\nA live at the same time as Aristotle\, Alexander the Great\, Archimedes\, Ap elles\, and Euclid.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berossus SUMMARY:Berossus · c. 400–c. 300 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-rabanus-maurus-q160441 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:07760101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:08560209 DESCRIPTION:Rabanus Maurus Magnentius\, also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus\ , was a Frankish Benedictine monk\, theologian\, poet\, encyclopedist and military writer who became archbishop of Mainz in East Francia. He was the author of the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis. He also wrote treatises on education and grammar and commentaries on the Bible. He was one of the mos t prominent teachers and writers of the Carolingian age\, and was called " Praeceptor Germaniae"\, or "the teacher of Germany". In the most recent ed ition of the Roman Martyrology\, his feast is given as 4 February and he i s qualified as a Saint ('sanctus').\n\n776 – February 8\, 856\; died at about 80.\nAlive at the same time as Charlemagne\, Muḥammad ibn Musa al- Khwarizmi\, Ādi Shankara\, Al-Shafi'i\, and Abu Nuwas.\n\nhttps://en.wiki pedia.org/wiki/Rabanus_Maurus SUMMARY:Rabanus Maurus · 776–856 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-gaius-julius-hyginus-q298376 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-00630101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:00180101 DESCRIPTION:Gaius Julius Hyginus was a Latin author\, a pupil of the schola r Alexander Polyhistor\, and a freedman of Augustus\, and reputed author o f the Fabulae and the De astronomia\, although this is disputed.\n\n64 BC – 17\; died at about 80.\nAlive at the same time as Jesus Christ\, Juliu s Caesar\, Seneca\, Aglaonike\, and Virgil.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus SUMMARY:Gaius Julius Hyginus · 64 BC–17 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-epicharmus-of-kos-q312410 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-05390101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-04330101 DESCRIPTION:Epicharmus of Cos\, thought to have lived between c. 550 and c . 460 BC\, was a Greek dramatist and philosopher who is often credited wi th being one of the first comedic writers\, having originated the Doric or Sicilian comedic form.\n\n540 BC – 435 BC\; died at about 104.\nAlive a t the same time as Confucius\, The Buddha\, Hippocrates\, Sun Tzu\, and So crates.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicharmus_of_Cos SUMMARY:Epicharmus of Kos · 540–435 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-jacobus-de-voragine-q313460 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:12280101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:12980801 DESCRIPTION:Jacobus de Voragine\, OP was an Italian chronicler and archbish op of Genoa. He was the author\, or more accurately the compiler\, of the Golden Legend\, a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the medieval church that was one of the most popular religious works of the Middle Ages.\n\n1228 – 1298\; died at about 70.\nAlive at the same time as Marco Polo\, Thomas Aquinas\, Fibonacci\, Kublai Khan\, and Willia m of Ockham.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_de_Voragine SUMMARY:Jacobus de Voragine · 1228–1298 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-hrotsvitha-q170248 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:09350101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:09690101 DESCRIPTION:Hrotsvitha was a secular canoness who wrote drama and Christian poetry under the Ottonian dynasty. She was born in Bad Gandersheim to Sax on nobles and entered Gandersheim Abbey as a canoness. She is considered t he first female writer from the Germanosphere\, the first person since the Fall of the Roman Empire to write dramas in the Latin West\, and the firs t German female poet.\n\n935 – 968\; died at about 32.\nAlive at the sam e time as Farabi\, Sylvester II\, Vladimir the Great\, Erik the Red\, and Ferdowsi.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvitha SUMMARY:Hrotsvitha · 935–968 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-abu-sa-id-abul-khayr-q335282 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:09671212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:10490119 DESCRIPTION:Abū Saʿīd Abū'l-Khayr or Abusa'id Abolkhayr\, also known as Sheikh Abusaeid or Abu Sa'eed\, was a famous Persian Sufi and poet who co ntributed extensively to the evolution of Sufi tradition.\n\nDecember 12\, 967 – January 18\, 1049\; died at 81.\nAlive at the same time as Avicen na\, William the Conqueror\, Leif Erikson\, Anselm of Canterbury\, and Mur asaki Shikibu.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Sa%27id_Abu%27l-Khayr SUMMARY:Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr · 967–1049 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-francis-beaumont-q313932 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15840101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16160307 DESCRIPTION:Francis Beaumont was a dramatist in the English Renaissance the atre\, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher.\n\n1584 – March 6\, 1616\; died at about 32.\nAlive at the same time as René Descar tes\, Elizabeth I of England\, Johannes Kepler\, Peter Paul Rubens\, and G iovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_ Beaumont SUMMARY:Francis Beaumont · 1584–1616 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-lucius-accius-q311287 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:-01690101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:-00830101 DESCRIPTION:Lucius Accius\, or Lucius Attius\, was a Roman tragic poet and literary scholar. Accius was born in 170 BC at Pisaurum\, a town founded i n the Ager Gallicus in 184 BC. He was the son of a freedman and a freedwom an\, probably from Rome.\n\n170 BC – 85 BC\; died at about 84.\nAlive at the same time as Julius Caesar\, Hipparchus\, Posidonius\, Cicero\, and C ato the Elder.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Accius SUMMARY:Lucius Accius · 170–85 BC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T023814Z UID:writers-ziryab-q1267054 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:07770101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:08580101 DESCRIPTION:Abu al-Hasan 'Ali Ibn Nafi'\, commonly known as Ziryab\, was a singer\, oud and lute player\, composer\, poet\, and teacher. He lived and worked in what is now Iraq\, West Asia\, and Andalusia during the medieva l Islamic period. He was also a polymath\, with knowledge in astronomy\, g eography\, meteorology\, botanics\, cosmetics\, culinary art\, and fashion .\n\n777 – 857\; died at about 80.\nAlive at the same time as Charlemagn e\, Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi\, Ādi Shankara\, Al-Shafi'i\, and Ab u Nuwas.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziryab SUMMARY:Ziryab · 777–857 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR