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This week's featured author pages

Tommaso Campanella (1568 - 1639) -- Italian philosopher and contemporary of Bruno and Galileo, who, although claiming to refute atheism, was imprisoned for his unconventional beliefs

Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832) -- English philosopher who founded utilitarianism and wrote extensively on the philosophy of law, economics, and politics

Thomas de Vio Cajetan (1468 - 1534) -- influential Thomist philosopher, who developed aspects of Aristotle and Aquinas' philosophy

George Gordon Noel Byron (1788 - 1824) -- one of the most important and notorious poets of the Romantic era, English-born.

Ivan Turgenev (1818 - 1883) -- Russian novelist and playwright; leading stylist in the genre