Biography Category
( l m r t´t ) (KEY) , c.1498–1554, Italian painter, whose real name was Alessandro Bonvicino. He was a leading representative of the Brescian schoo...
(fôs´t s s s ´n s) (KEY) or Fausto Sozzini (fou´st s t-ts ´n ) (KEY) , 1539–1604, Italian religious reformer, founder of Socinianism. Socinus...
(sm l´ t) (KEY) , 1721–71, Scottish novelist. After studying at Glasgow he came to London in 1739. Failing to get his tragedy The Regicide produced...
1932–, Indian economist and government official, prime minister of India (2004–), b. Gah, West Punjab. Educated at the universities of Punjab, Cam...
1940, passed by the U.S. Congress as the Alien Registration Act of 1940. The act, which made it an offense to advocate or belong to a group that advoc...
(yä´k p päl´mä) (KEY) , c.1480–1528, Venetian painter, called Palma Vecchio. He formed his style under the influence of Giovanni Bellini, Titi...