For Ovid, business and occupation are the enemies of Cupid, but wine "prepares the heart for love"

Drowning your cares with a glass of rich, sweet wine with rosy-cheeked nuns? In the world of Belgian novelist Georges Rochenbach, it marks the loss of innocence

Twenty-stone Ben Jonson was a big man with a big appetite for drink; drink that transformed both his life and work

The great man of letters Charles Lamb was naturally shy — wine allowed him to shine on conversation. Sometimes, though, he would overindulge