Turgot, a French statesman (727-81) who held the doctrines of the philosophe party and was for nearly two years manager of the national finances under Louis XVI.
Two Sicilies, the kingdoms of Sicily and Naples
Tyers, Tom, author of a Biographical Sketch of Doctor Johnson. It was a remark of Johnson’s that Tyers described him the best
VAUCLUSE, a village in S.E. France, twenty miles from Avignon where Petrarch lived for sixteen years
Verres, the Roman governor of Sicily (73-71 B.C.), for plundering which island he was brought to trial and prosecuted by Cicero
Vico, John Baptist, Professor of Rhetoric at Naples and author of Principles of a New Science, a work on the philosophy of history (d. 1744)
Victor Amadeus of Savoy, soldier and statesman (1655-1732) His sons-in-law were Philip V. and the Duke of Burgundy
Vida, an Italian Latin poet (c. 1480-1566)
Vida et Sannazar, eminent modern Latin poets of the early sixteenth century
Villars, Louis, Duc de, French marshal, defeated at Ramillies and Malplaquet (d. 1734),