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Victor Hugo, in a 1879 portrait by Léon Bonnat, now in the Musée Victor Hugo, Paris.

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English poet Thomas Hoccleve presents Henry, Prince of Wales (later Henry V of England) with his book "De Regimine Principum", circa 1413, in an English illumination.

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Dante Alighieri with his work "The Divine Comedy", in a 1465 painting by Domenico di Michelino in S. Maria del Fiore in Florence.

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A drawing from 1877 by Anton von Werner of Ovid, for "Roman Life" in Café Bauer in Berlin.

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Susan Sontag in Paris, 1979.

Photo: akg-images / Marion Kalter