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Disciplines in Literature & Letters
Novelists, poets, philosophers, theologians, New Thought authors, historians and the students of language itself.
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7 figures
Leonardo da Vinci
1452 – 1519Proved that art and science are one act of looking.
Miguel de Cervantes
1547 – 1616Don Quixote, the first modern novel and the most translated after the Bible.
Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti
1556 – 1627Timbuktu's greatest scholar; wrote over 40 works and argued against enslavement of Muslims.
William Shakespeare
1564 – 1616Built the language most of the planet now negotiates in.
Matsuo Bashō
1644 – 1694Perfected haiku and the travel journal in The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
1648 – 1695The nun who argued for women's right to learn — and was silenced for it.
Voltaire
1694 – 1778Weaponised satire for tolerance and free expression.