Isadore Gilbert Mudge (March 14 1875 – May 16 1957) – an influential reference librarian, instrumental in building reference and bibliographic collections

Alessandro Manzoni was an Italian philosopher, poet, and writer. He is known for his book The Betrothed, a classic that helped unify the Italian language

Michel de Montaigne was one of the most important philosophers of the French Renaissance. One of the things he’s known for making the essay a literary genre

W. H. Auden was a poet who wrote about the dissolution of culture and civilization. He won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for his poem The Age of Anxiety

George Jean Nathan was a drama critic and editor from Indiana. He brought the literary magazine The Smart Set to prominence as the editor

Frederik Paludan-Müller (7 February, 1809 – 27 December, 1876) was a poet of the late Romantic movement from Denmark

Hector St. John de Crèvecœur was a French-American author, diplomat, and farmer. He is remembered mostly for his book Letters from an American Farmer

Pierre Beaumarchais (24 January, 1732 – 18 May, 1799) was a French playwright, inventor, diplomat and many other evolution over his life

Pedro Calderón de la Barca (17 January, 1600 – 25 May, 1681) was a Spanish poet and writer. He is one of the premier poets of Spain’s Golden Age

Aubrey Thomas de Vere (10 January, 1814 – 20 January, 1902) was an Irish poet who brought Christian perspective to his poems