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This week's featured author pages

Melchior Cano (1509 - 1560) -- Spanish theologian

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

Anselm (1033 - 1109) -- leading medieval thinker, and Archbishop of Canterbury, who is remembered for his ontological arguments for the existence of God, and his position on theological matters

Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637) -- Jacobean dramatist, poet, and critic, some of whose plays were acted in by Shakespeare

Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) -- English politician, Irish born, whose writings on politics may have influenced the growth of conservatism