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Portraits and fashion: Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Woman

10 Artworks By Botticelli You Should Know

From Medicis to Mythologies: How Sandro Botticelli Became One of History’s Most Influential Artists

Alessandro Volta: Google lights up for inventor of the battery

Stories of inventors and their inventions: Alessandro Volta and the Voltaic pile

We Had No Idea What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like. Until Now

Not Forgotten

Alexander Fleming, The Discoverer of the Antibiotic Effects of Penicillin

Did Alexander Fleming Deserve the Nobel Prize?

Alexander Hamilton vs Thomas Jefferson: the rise and fall of America’s founding fathers

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Humboldt’s legacy

Looking at Nature through the Eyes of Alexander von Humboldt

Why Is the Man Who Predicted Climate Change Forgotten?

What Are the Characteristics of Alexander Pope's Poems?

How Alexander Pushkin Was Inspired By His African Heritage

The magic of Pushkin’s verse comes alive in a new translation

How Pushkin responded to critics and insults

Bucephalus: why is Alexander’s the Great’s horse famous?

How Did Alexander the Great Change the Course of History?

The Life of Alexandre Dumas, Classic Adventure Writer

The rise and fall of Alexandre Dumas, the black author who ruled European literature in the 1800s

Alfred J. Lotka and the origins of theoretical population ecology

Alfred M. Mayer and Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century America