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