SOURCES – The 15 ugliest historical figures

The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “The 15 ugliest historical figures.”

  1. Symposium by Xenophon
  2. Aesop: Myth or Reality?
  3. Suetonius, The Lives of the Caesars
  4. Charles II: the last Spanish Habsburg
  5. Leopold I: the ‘Baroque emperor’
  6. Louis XI becomes King of France
  7. John Wilkes (1725-1797)
  8. The Pockmarked Face of the Comte de Mirabeau
  9. Camille Desmoulins
  10. ‘The new Terrors of Death’: Dr John Arbuthnot, Queen Anne’s favourite physician
  11. Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. And of the Regency
  12. Cyrano de Bergerac
  13. Outlaw: George Eliot
  14. Miss Katherine Read, Court Paintress