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Stephen Sinclair
Stephen Sinclair
Stephen Sinclair is a New Zealand film, theatre and television writer. As a screenwriter, he has worked with director Peter Jackson on Meet the Feebles, Braindead and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. He has also directed several short films, including Home Video and Ride, which was selected for the Montreal Film Festival in 2004.
Sir William Soames
Sir William Soames
Sir William Soames was the translator of Boileau’s Art of Poetry / Lutrin.
Philip H. Wicksteed
Philip H. Wicksteed
Philip H. Wicksteed was the translator of Boccaccio’s Life of Dante.
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Life of Dante
By Boccaccio
Life of Dante brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni Boccaccio together with the historical analysis of leading humanist Leonardo Bruni. Their writings, along with the other sources included in this volume, provide a wealth…
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Petronius
Petronius Arbiter (d.66 AD) was Emperor Nero’s advisor in matters of luxury and extravagance. He is said to have devoted his life to pleasure, but a rival’s jealousy turned Nero against him, and he was forced to commit suicide.
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Nicolas Boileau
Nicolas Boileau
The influential French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) laid the foundations for all future French verse, and exercised a strong influence on the course of Western literature.
Mirra Ginsburg
Mirra Ginsburg
Mirra Ginsburg is the translator of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Life of Monsieur de Moliere.
Junichi Watanabe
Junichi Watanabe
Born in Hokkaido, Jun’ichi Watanabe became interested in literature in high school. After graduating at Sapporo Medical University, he worked as an orthopaedic surgeon, but in 1969 he resigned his post and moved to Tokyo to pursue a full-time career as a writer. The recipient of prestigious literary awards such as the Naoki Prize and the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize, Watanabe has written numerous scientific texts as well as biographical books and works of fiction, many of which have been made into films.
Jules Renard
Jules Renard
Poet, novelist and journal writer, Jules Renard (1864–1910) is a major figure of late-nineteenth-century French literature, influencing other writers to this day, including Somerset Maugham and Julian Barnes.
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John Ozell
John Ozell
John Ozell translated Nicolas Boileau’s Art of Poetry / Lutrin.