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The trial of Giordano Bruno, a bronze
relief in Rome by Ettore Ferrari |
Here are today's milestones:
Born this on day:
Mori Ogai (1862; died July 8, 1922) Japanese novelist and poet;
Gan (
Wild Geese);
Wita sekusuarisu (
Vita Sexualis); "Takasebune" ("The Boat on the Takase River"); "Maihime" ("The Dancing Girl")
Will Levington Comfort (1878; died November 2, 1932) American adventure writer known for adventure for
Apache; three of his works were the basis of feature films.
Mo Yan (1955) Chinese novelist and short story writer;
Red Sorghum Clan;
The Republic of Wine;
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out; Nobel Prize in Literature (2012)
Died this on day:
Giordano Bruno (1600; born Unknown Date, 1548) Italian friar, philosopher, and cosmologist;
the six "Italian Dialogues": La Cena de le Ceneri (
The Ash Wednesday Supper);
De la Causa, Principio et Uno (
On Cause, Principle and Unity);
De l'Infinito, Universo e Mondi (
On the Infinite, Universe and Worlds);
Lo Spaccio de la Bestia Trionfante (
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast);
Cabala del cavallo Pegaseo (
Cabal of the Horse Pegasus); and
De gli Heroici Furori (
On the Heroic Frenzies)
Moliere (1673; born January 15, 1622) French playwright;
Le Misanthrop (
The Misanthrope);
L'école des Femmes (
The School for Wives);
Tartuffe;
L'Avare (
The Miser);
Le Malade Imaginaire (
The Imaginary Invalid); and
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (
The Bourgeois Gentleman)
James Macpherson (1796; born October 27, 1736) Scottish author;
Ossian cycle of poems
Heinrich Heine (1856; born December 13, 1797) German poet;
Buch der Lieder (
Book of Songs);
Reisebilder (
Travel Pictures);
Deutschland: Ein Wintermärchen (
Germany: A Winter's Tale);
Atta Troll: Ein Sommernachtstraum (
Atta Troll: A Midsummer Night's Dream);
Romanzero (a collection)
Joaquin Miller (1913; born September 8, 1837) American poet known for
Songs of the Sierras
Bonus Classic:
Lucian (of Samosata) (c.?125-after 180) Assyrian-born Greek rhetorician and satirist who wrote comic dialogues, rhetorical essays and prose fiction, including
A True Story
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