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This week's featured author pages

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741 - 1803) -- French novelist, whose masterpiece is Les liaisons dangereuses

Arcesilaus (315 - 240) -- Greek philosopher who championed scepticism, holding that we should suspend our beliefs and judgements

Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) -- Russian-American author, translator, lepidopterist whose linguistic faculty has been compared to that of James Joyce

Giambattista Vico (1668 - 1744) -- influential Italian philosopher, who argued that we can have certain knowledge only about things which we have created

Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536) -- leading figure in the Renaissance humanism movement