John Milton
English poet and civil servant
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English poet and civil servant
Holy Roman Emperor from 1637 to 1657
Italian physicist and mathematician
French prince
English military officer and politician
Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician

17th-century Portuguese diplomat and missionary

French Jesuit lay brother, missionary and martyr
English nobleman
17th-century French Catholic priest and founder of the Sulpicians
Italian Jesuit writer and historiographer
English army officer