Aldus, the famous Venetian printer (1447-1515), who issued the Aldine
editions of the classics and invented italic type
Alfieri, Italian dramatist, and one of the pioneers of the revolt
against eighteenth-century literary and society models (1749-1803)
Algarotti, Francesco, a litterateur, friend of Voltaire. Frederic made
him a count (1764)
Alnaschar, see “The History of the Barber’s Fifth Brother,” in the
Arabian Nights