Before I left the museum I asked Karakina, who used to host "Love Is Strange," a television program exploring illustrious personages' love lives, which book about Odessa to read first.
It remains the province of artists, and of those illustrious women whose lives have assumed art's deepest consequence and privilege: i.e., we know who they are.
Ramus was born in 1515 to a poor but, according to him, illustrious family who lived in a small village in Picardy not far from Noyon, the birthplace of his contemporary, John Calvin (1509 1564).
Never defeated never defeated in peace or in war, his name is the most illustrious borne by living men".
Marcel Proust, to take only the most illustrious example, fictionalized the lives and names of well-known Parisian contemporaries.
It comprises Les Vies des dames illustres ("Lives of Illustrious Ladies, Les Vieses des dames galantes ("Lives of Gallant Ladies, Les Vieses des hommes illustres et grands capitaines français ("Lives of French Illustrious Men and the Great Leaders"), and Les Vies des hommes illustres et des grands capitaines étrangers ("Lives of Foreign Illustrious Men and the Great Leaders").
She was engaged, moreover, in the oldest science of all, the study of the influence of stars and planets on the lives of illustrious people.
Modern knowledge of his life comes from his immense correspondence with Cicero the Letters to Atticus (Epistulae ad Atticum)—and from a brief biography in De viris illustribus (Lives of Illustrious Men), by his Roman friend the writer Cornelius Nepos.
But the illustrious appellation could someday live in infamy.
The main source of classics such as the Roman de la rose ("Romance of the Rose"), the Alexander romances, Archbishop Giovanni da Colonna's Liber de viris illustribus ("Book Concerning Illustrious Men"), and the recorded lives of the saints can be traced to the Speculum majus.
