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considered lengthy, while others are considered massive. For example, the biography of Cornelius Scipio is 20,000 words and that of the newly entered Julius Caesar is 70,000 words long. Petrarch's characters were of military heroes and civic leaders, while other authors wrote on most any notable men. Petrarch's overall goal attitude was to convey antiquity and history balanced with the Christian tradition. He presented a moral aim of doing the right thing compared to actions of the past. He saw Jerome's "Church Fathers" as presenting moral virtues through Christian traditional viewpoints. He felt that by close examination of the ancient Roman leaders the reader could gain their virtues.
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morality that could be learned from the ancient Roman leaders and Old Testament figures. He stressed these points over that of victories on the battlegrounds, which he considered as mere luck and incompetence of the enemies. He saw his duty of his work to be "describing illustrious men, not lucky
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for their history of famous men and that of Jerome's Latin "Church Fathers" for their Christian viewpoints. He viewed both as a world being in decline. The third plan was a series of biographies of Romulus to Trajan and is referred to as "ancient secular heroes." In this plan most biographies are
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that was wholly committed to those who were illustrious "from every country" and that he was "bringing together illustrious men from all lands and centuries." This is known to scholars as an "all-ages" plan. Petrarch added the "bio" of Julius Caesar,
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Petrarch intended his work to be instructional for teaching moral righteousness. He found comfort in the misfortunes of Old Testament figures such as Jacob and Joseph. He showed to his fourteenth century readers the lessons of
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Repository of the book here present where will be shown the chapters on 36 "illustrious men" whose deeds are extensively described by the honorable poet, Sir Francesco Petrarca, and beginning as appears
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as the bases. Petrarch was preoccupied with this idea of a series of biographies of Lives of ancient heroes of generals and statesmen for almost forty years. There were several plans of
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of 106 biographies which starts with the first woman of the Bible. Below is the first person of the Bible and above in Liber I is the first mythical figures that started Rome.
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and his "Church Fathers." It was finished around 1351-53 and called the "all-ages" plan. Petrarch enjoyed both the writings of ancient writers before the
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of biographies of illustrious men of Jewish, oriental, Greek and Roman famous figures in 1337-38. He wrote up his list of "Illustrious Men" from
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Liber II includes 12 moral biographies of Biblical and mythical figures (much like that found in the Hebrew Bible and Greek mythology).
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as the twenty-fourth biography. The adjacent 1476 Table of Contents introduction is old Italian and says something to the effect:
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These are the subjects of Petrarch's 12 biographies starting with the first person of the Bible. Petrarch influenced
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Liber I includes 24 to 36 moral biographies (depending on version) of heroes of Greek and Roman antiquity (much like
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Francis Petrarch Six Centuries Later: A Symposium. Studies in Romance Languages at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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for Rome in 1338. Another of Petrarch's friends, Guglielmo Pastrengo, had two works on lives of famous men,
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are about the origins and definitions of geographical sites, peoples, and certain stone structures.
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Historian Kohl says that there was at least three different "plans" that Petrarch devised for his
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The Catholic Encyclopedia, Published 1910 in New York by Robert Appleton Company.
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Petrarch mentions in letters from Vaucluse around 1350 that he was working on a
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In the footsteps of the ancients: the origins of humanism from Lovato to Bruni
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which was originally written up around 1337. St. Augustine speaks to Petrarch
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These are 36 biographies of Petrarch's subjects starting with Romulus, the
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De viris illustribus / Francesco Petrarca ; edited by Silvano Ferrone
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Listed among these are Titus, Pompey, Scipio Africanus and Julius Caesar.
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Petrarch went from these Lives of "Illustrious Men" into his work on the
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Petrarch in Print display at the University of Pennsylvania Library of
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Made possible by support from the National Italian American Foundation
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Kohl, Benjamin (1974). "Petrarch's Prefaces to de Viris Illustribus".
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Works by Livy at Project Gutenberg that have subjects of Liber I at
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with Scipio Africanus being the center figure for both. The
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in 1337-38 about the same time as he was writing up the
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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Index


biographies
Latin
Italian
Francesco Petrarca
Parallel Lives
poet laureate
Polybius
The Histories
Plutarch
Lives
English
Harvard University
I Tatti Renaissance Library
mythological
Trajan
Africa
Titus
Julius Caesar

Romulus
Numa Pompilius
Tullus Hostilius
Ancus Marcius
Lucius Junius Brutus
Horatius Cocles
Cincinnatus
Marcus Furius Camillus
Titus Manlius Torquatus
Marcus Valerius Corvus

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