Ludwig van Beethoven Last Testament

This is a copy of the Last Will of English novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817).

• The will is handwritten, in Austen's distinctive hand.
• Jane Austen's romantic fiction has been so popular over the years, it has earned her a place as one of the most widely read and beloved writers in English literary history, even among scholars and critics, who admire her realism and biting social commentary.
• Austen's most well known novels include Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma.
• Her works are concerned with moral issues and highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure their financial security and their place in society.

Source: Wikipedia.org

This is a copy of the Last Will of the maestro Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).

• Leonardo was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer, musician, scientist, mathematician, inventor, botanist, anatomist, and cartographer. He is considered the archetypal Renaissance man, and is perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have existed. A brilliant artist and inventor, his use of logic and empirical methods were unusual for his time.
• To the average person, Leonardo has always been known primarily as a painter. His most famous works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, are the most reproduced and most parodied paintings of all time. His drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also an instantly recognizable cultural icon, having been reproduced on everything from the Euro to T-shirts.
• In addition to the brilliance of his artistic endeavours, Leonardo's drawings show that he conceptualized prototypes for the helicopter, the tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, the double hull, and a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. He also invented an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, and these devices were manufactured during his lifetime.
• As a scientist, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.

Source: Wikipedia.org

Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Liberace.

• Wladziu Valentino Liberace (1919-1987) was known to the world by his last name and to his friends as Lee.
• Liberace was a gifted classical pianist who began playing at the age of 4 and later became incredibly popular around the world through his flamboyant style of showmanship.
• From the 1950s to the 1970s (when Elvis Presley and The Beatles were at the height of their popularity), he was the highest paid entertainer in the world.
• Liberace was recognized during his career with two Emmys, six gold albums, and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• Liberace died in 1987 at age 68 from pneumonia resulting from HIV/AIDS. He never came out as gay during his lifetime and his press agent stated the cause of death to be a combination of pernicious anemia, emphysema, and heart disease.

Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

• William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often referred to as England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard").
• Shakespeare's surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems.
• His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

The foregoing biographical information on Shakespeare is quoted from Wikipedia.