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Netherlands
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Folger call number: CT34.E85 B46 2017
Folger holdings ID: 500404
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction / Patrick Baker -- Part 1. The history of philosophy and the persona of the philosopher -- Spoliating Diogenes Laertius : Giannozzo Manetti's Use(s) of the lives of the philosophers / Manuela Kahle -- Giannozzo Manetti: De illustribus longaevis, "Socrates"/On famous men of great age, "Life of Socrates" / Manuela Kahle -- Giannozzo Manetti: Vita Socratis (excerpt)/Life of Socrates (excerpt) / Manuela Kahle -- Part 2. Encyclopedic, historical, and moral biography -- Lives transformed : John Whethamstede's use of Plutarch's lives / Marianne Pade -- John Wethamstede: Granarium, pars prima, "Paulus"/Granarium, part one, "Paulus" / Marianne Pade -- Part 3. Bio-bibliography and cultural history (I) : the history of a cultural movement -- Collective biography as historiography : the De viris illustribus of Bartolomeo Facio / Patrick Baker -- Bartolomeo Facio: De viris illustribus, "De poetis" et "De oratoribus"/On famous men, "Poets" and "Orators" / Patrick Baker -- Part 4. Bio-bibliography and cultural history (II) : nationalism and apologetics -- Perception of the Middle Ages and self-perception in German humanism : Johannes Trithemius and the Cathalogus illustrium virorum Germaniam...exornantium / Johannes Helmrath -- Johannes Trithemius: Cathalogus illustrium virorum Germaniam suis ingeniis et lucubrationibus omnifariam exornantium (excerpts)/Catalogue of the illustrious men who have adorned Germany in every way with their talents and tireless studies (excerpts) / Johannes Helmrath -- Part 5. Philosophical and religious didacticism -- Philipp Melanchthon's De Aristotele (1544) : biography as a pedagogical argument / Asaph Ben-Tov -- Philipp Melanchthon: Oratio de Aristotele/On Aristotle / Asaph Ben-Tov -- Part 6. Philosophizing and the persona of the philosopher -- Biography as a medium of philosophy and the history of philosophy : Pierre Gassendi / Michael Weichenhan -- Pierre Gassendi: De vita et moribus Epicuri, Epistola dedicatoria/On the life and character of Epicurus, Dedicatory letter / Michael Weichenhan -- Part 7. Philosophical biography and the history of philosophy -- From persona to systema : Heumann's dethronement of Porphyry's Life of Plotinus and the biographical model for writing the history of philosophy / Leo Catana -- Christoph August Heumann: "Das Leben Plotini vom Porphyrio beschrieben"/"The life of Plotinus described by Porphyry" / Leo Catana