Italian painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, best known for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing, and the basis for biographies of several Renaissance artists, including Leonardo da Vinci
American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner
English writer
British historian and academic
English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era
English writer and bibliographer
Roman historian and politician
Pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh , a Scottish author
19th-century French writer
American biographer, cultural administrator, and critic
