Charles-Emmanuel Ier ou l’appel à être plus que soi-même by Stéphane Gal

“…Convinced to have been chosen by the divine providence to realize an outstanding dynastic intention, he cultivated the wonderful to dilate his person, his States and his status in the size of a kingdom. Man of letters as much as man at arms, he expressed himself his expectations in poetries and drawings idealizing the Christian prince. …”
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Imam al-Busiri by Mohd. Syukri Yeoh Abdullah, Othman Talib, Salmah Haji Ahmad

“…This study discovers that Imam al-Busiri was a great Muslim poet with fertile imagination. He was a man of letters with evergreen characteristics because his oringinal creative work .Burdah is still being accepted and held in high esteem by a number of Muslims. …”

Pamela: una donna goldoniana in Russia con Eleonora Duse by Maria Pia Pagani

“…It was created by an anonymous Russian man of letters to help the public in the comprehension of the plot of the comedy, because the actors played using Italian language.This essay presents the first annotated Italian translation of this libretto, and a reflection about Duse’s first tour in Russia – with particular attention to the diffusion process “outside” the Italian boundaries of this Goldoni’s comedy, which was in her repertory “inside” the national territory since 1880.…”
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Érudition, voyage et correspondance : les leçons du voyage d’Italie au temps des Lumières by Gilles Bertrand

“…Montesquieu and de Brosses launched the debate: by devaluing certain excesses of erudition, they contributed to the evolution of the figure of the man of letters as much as the meaning of travel in Italy. …”
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Attalos III, King and Sculptor by Tomasz Polański

“…Attalos was one of the best educated Hellenistic monarchs, a lover and patron of the arts and sciences, a sculptor and a man of letters. With the slaying of Attalos III and his closest relatives the Roman senators also terminated the last great project of patronage over the Hellenic arts, letters and sciences.…”
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Ethos w paratekście Teatru różnorodnych umysłów świata Tommasa Garzoniego na podstawie francuskiego przekładu Gabriela Chappuys by Paulina Materka

“…The ethos, or the author’s self-creation in the work, takes a very specific form; it is not only the man of letters who speaks, but also the Theatre that appeals to its spectators. …”
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Sassi contro il cielo Menzogna individuale e verità di Stato in Oscar Wilde by Duccio Chiapello

“…He was both a celebrated man of letters, and an irreducibly extraneous body. His essay The Decay of Lying, published in 1889, is a Socratic dialogue that, through its inherent duplicity, exhibits this binary condition. …”
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Le Kojiki, une Énéide longtemps oubliée ? by François Macé

“…Like Virgil’s poem, the Kojiki is an epic written by a man of letters, skilfully drawing on contrasts and echoes between the Age of the Gods and that of men. …”
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The Exemplary Life of Dimitrios Vikelas (1835-1908) by Michael Llewellyn Smith

“…It explores Vikelas' multiple aspects, as merchant, writer, traveller, lecturer and essayist, Olympic founder, educationalist, book collector and philanthropist, all of which were united in the public-spirited man of letters (logios). It sets Vikelas in the context of the Greek commercial diaspora, the world of the London expatriate Greek community, and the dynamic society of late nineteenth-century Athens, beginning in the 1870s to act as a magnet to Greek expatriates. …”
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The Preface. Reflections of a unpolitical man by Tomasz Mann

“…The greatest advocate of democracy among Germans is the civilization’s man of letters. Mann undermines the value of his art and gives reasons for the disagreements with this revolutio-nary knowledge, which he calls “The new Pathos”. …”
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The memoirs of Vilnius bishop Adam Stanisław Krasiński: from manuscript to publication by Aldona Prašmantaitė

“…From his youth interested in literature, having also been a man of letters, the preparer of a dictionary of Polish synonyms, Krasiński while living in Krakow began to write memoirs. …”
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PENGARUH TAFSÎR AL-MANÂR TERHADAP TAFSIR AL-AZHAR by Abdul Manan Syafi’i

“…Tafsir al- Manâr is a masterpiece that has become a manifestation characterizes HAMKA’s thought and aspiration as a celebrated Muslim scholar and a man of letters. It contains various critical ideas and message of renewals that stimulate the reader to stand still and improve the aspects of religious, education, social, economic and politics of the Muslim community. …”
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Dilettante nell’illustrazione, Maestro nell’esegesi by Zava, Giulia

“…The incunable has been decorated by a man of letters at the end of the XV century, whom some scholars identify with Antonio Grifo and the others cagily call the “Dilettante Queriniano”. …”
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Health Monitoring and Life on the Mississippi by Lynne S. Wilcox

“…Twain had a keen eye for the idiosyncrasies of human behavior, and his nonfiction works suggest he was adept at amateur qualitative research. Though he was a man of letters rather than a scientist, he clearly appreciated the issues involved in gathering quality information: There is something fascinating about science. …”
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Conversations across time and space: classical traditions in the Andes by Sabine MacCormack

“…Ona June night in 1557,Gonzalo Femández de Oviedo, courtier, soldier, imperial official, man of letters and historian, lay on his deathbed, clasping in his hands the key to the fortress of Santo Domingo of which he had been commandant, alcaide, duringthe preceding thirty four years. 2 His life had been long and event ful. …”
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To know Glauco Mattoso by Atonio Vicente Seraphim Pietroforte

“…To account for some of these aspects in our essay, we do not intend to make the historical panorama of his work, much less summarize his activities as a man of letters. In order to analyze the poetics of Glauco Mattoso from three points of view, namely the architecture of the text, the figures and the themes, our work is carried out on three fronts: (1) the insertion of Glauco Mattoso as a vanguard poet, not only in formal innovations, but was the first to poeticize BDSM in Brazil; (2) his versification techniques; (3) his world views.   --- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25094/rtp.2017n22a441…”
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По прочтению скандинавских переводов Б. Акунина<br>(On Scandinavian Translations of B. Akunin) by Olga Komarova

“…The author Grigory Tkhartishvili, a well-known man of letters, translator and a connoisseur of Japanese language and culture, is now known all over the world, and translations of his novels are widely available, including in Norway and Sweden. …”
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Le cynisme ancien : entre authenticité et contrefaçon by Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé

“…Obviously, the new minting of the Cynic currency questioned the Stoics as well as the Christians, a man of letters like Lucian as well as a man of power and culture like Julian. …”
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«Un ritrovo di poeti alla ricerca del nuovo» by Mancini, Leonardo

“…The director of the School is the Italian actor and man of letters Luigi Rasi, with whom d’Annunzio himself, with the mediation of Eleonora Duse, has different artistic collaborations from the debut of Gioconda in 1899 to the rehearsals of Francesca da Rimini in 1901. …”
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Spingersi al di là della finestra: la finestra decostruita. Estetica antiborghese e fantasia speculativa in Zäzilie di Christian Morgenstern by Emanuela Ferragamo

“…Such an analysis highlights that Zäzilie's housework reproduces the author's never-ending philosophical research and his way of looking “beyond and though” the man (Morgenstern, Letters, 1979:138).…”
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