Charles Eliot Norton

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Born	November 16, 1827 • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Died	October 21, 1908 (aged 80) • Cambridge • Massachusetts

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John Ciardi

American poet and critic

Mihály Babits

Hungarian author

Gustave Doré: Dante, guided by Virgil, observes those guilty of simony in the eighth circle of Hell

Henry Francis Cary

British biographer

Mary Louise Booth

American journalist

Nina Berberova

Russian-American writer

Robert Pinsky

American poet and critic

Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet

American author

Samuel Putnam

American editor and author

Carolyn Forché

American poet

Charles Rockwell Lanman

American scholar

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

English artist

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Eugenio Montale

Italian author

Elio Vittorini

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Martin Opitz

German poet

Anthony Munday

English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator

Níkos Kazantzákis

Greek writer

Lin Yutang

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Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke

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Paolo Antonio Rolli

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