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This week's featured author pages

Lorenzo Valla (1407 - 1457) -- Italian humanist who was critical of medieval scholasticism

Walter Pater (1839 - 1894) -- British critic and essayist, who influenced Wilde and the Aesthetic movement generally

Theophrastus (371 - 287) -- successor of Aristotle, who developed the latter's philosophy in important respects

Kenneth Grahame (1859 - 1932) -- writer of children's stories, most famous for his The Wind in the Willows

Adam Smith (1723 - 1790) -- a renowned economist, Smith was originally a professor of logic and then of moral philosophy