The drink became a favorite of many artists and artisans including Oscar Wilde, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, and of course, the most famous of the "Absinthe-drinking crew" (if I may call it that), Vincent Van Gogh. ... During the age of absinthe, new kinds of art emerged; Henri Toulouse-Lautrec became famous for his posters, his inspiration: Absinthe, Vincent Van Gogh, famous for his postimpressionist paintings and short, turbulent life, also enjoyed his absinthe. ... It must be more than a coincidence that some of the most famous art we have comes from the Age of Absinthe. ... The most famous R...

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Greek had been a key piece of the Roman instructive framework; any informed Roman would have known it and possessed the capacity to quote from its most celebrated creators and speakers, for example, Demosthenes, Aristophanes, or Lucian. ... His most famous work, Elegances of the Latin Language (published 1471), was a practical style guide for writing and speaking the most elegant Latin, which he identified with the Latin of the "golden age" of Roman letters. ...

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