Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
John Addington Symonds
Born: October 5, 1840
Died: April 19, 1893 (aged 52)
Bio: John Addington Symonds was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of male love, which he believed could include pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships.
Known for:
- Renaissance in Italy (1875)
- The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1893)
- The Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini
- Studies of the Greek poets (1870)