Biography, historiography, and modes of philosophizing : the tradition of collective biography in early modern Europe

Folger bibliographic ID: 351813
Folger call number: CT34.E85 B46 2017
Folger holdings ID: 500404

"By way of essays and a selection of primary sources in parallel text, Biography, Historiography, and Modes of Philosophizing provides an introduction to a vast, significant, but neglected corpus of early modern literature: collective biography. It focuses especially on the various related strands of political, philosophical, and intellectual and cultural biography as well as on the intersection between biography, historiography, and philosophy. Individual texts from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century are presented as examples of how the ancient collective biographical tradition--as represented above all by Plutarch, Suetonius, Diogenes Laertius, and Jerome--was received and transformed in the Renaissance and beyond in accordance with the needs of humanism, religious controversy, politics, and the development of modern philosophy and science"--Provided by publisehr

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

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

Extended title: Biography, historiography, and modes of philosophizing : the tradition of collective biography in early modern Europe / edited by Patrick Baker

Biography Historiography Biography as a literary form Europe European literature

editor: Baker, Patrick, 1976-