a French author whose career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.

an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important representative of the Neapolitan school of opera

a Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Some have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist".

a Swiss mathematician who worked primarily in geometry

an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher, who discovered animal electricity

a Russian poet, lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest