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Peter Abelard

Henry Adams

James Agee

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Anonymous

Hannah Arendt

Aretino

Source: "Bibliothek des allgemeinen
und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristophanes

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Anne Askew

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
W. H. Auden

Augustine

Marcus Aurelius

Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Zygmunt Bauman

from Wikipedia
Pierre Bayard

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Callimachus

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Bartolome de Las Casas

from Wikipedia
Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Willa Cather

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Stanley Cavell

Geoffrey Chaucer

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
J. M. Coetzee

Ted Cohen

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Robert Coover

e. e. cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Jacques Derrida

John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
John Donne

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Dryden

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
George Eliot

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
T. S. Eliot

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
William Empson

John Burlinson
Desiderius Erasmus

Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
David Ferry

Gustave Flaubert

Michel Foucault

Harry G. Frankfurt

Prof. Harry G. Frankfurt. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2002 (courtesy of Princeton University)
James Frazer

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Galen

Claude Galien. Lithograph by Pierre Roche Vigneron. (Paris: Lith de Gregoire et Deneux, ca. 1865). From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Rene Girard

Vicq
Anthony Grafton

Prof. Anthony Thomas Grafton. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2000 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Robert von Hallberg

Martin Heidegger

Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Hesiod

Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Hans Holbein

Hans Holbein the Younger
Self-portrait, 1541,
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
(Yorck Project)
Robert Homer / Fagles

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Sue Hubbell

Robert Giard
Holbrook Jackson

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-105776)
(cropped)
Fredric Jameson

From Wikimedia Commons
Jean de Joinville

Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Immanuel Kant

Sean. Keilen

Soren; translated by Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Melanie Klein

from Wikipedia
Kenneth Koch

Larry Rivers
David Konstan

C. S. Lewis

H. G. Liddell

H. G. Liddell. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jonathan Littell

David Monniaux
Titus Livy

from Wikipedia
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Lucian

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Maurice Maeterlinck

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Herbert Marcuse

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Martial

From Wikipedia
Philip Melanchthon

Print copyrighted 1833 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-5989)
J. Hillis Miller

Zenohockey
Earl Miner

Prof. Earl Miner, 1926-2004 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Vladimir Nabokov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Oliver O'Donovan

Douglas Knight March 2008
Jaroslav Pelikan

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Plutarch

Angelo Poliziano

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Marcel (1871-1922) Proust

Thomas De Quincey

Quintilian

Christoph Ransmayr

Mariusz Kubik, photographer
I.A. Richards

Paul Ricoeur

Rainer Maria Rilke

Cesare Ripa

Engraving from 1613 edition of Ripa's Iconologia
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jean-Paul Sartre

Seneca

Philip Sidney

from Wikipedia
Adam Smith

Susan Sontag

Sophocles

Edmund Spenser

George Steiner

Laurence Sterne

Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Tacitus

Alfred Tennyson

Aquinas Thomas, Saint

Dylan Thomas

Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Louis Untermeyer

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Various

Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Thomas Warton

Simone Weil

Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Xenophon

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
W.B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
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