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De Viris Illustribus (Petrarch)

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De viris illustribus (On Illustrious Men) is an unfinished collection of biographies, written in Latin, by the 14th century Italian author Francesco Petrarca. [1]

7 relations: Africa (Petrarch), De Mulieribus Claris, De viris illustribus, De Viris Illustribus (disambiguation), Exemplum, Influence of Italian humanism on Chaucer, Petrarch.

Africa (Petrarch)

Africa is an epic poem in Latin hexameters by the 14th century Italian poet Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca).

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De Mulieribus Claris

De Mulieribus Claris or De Claris Mulieribus (Latin for "Concerning Famous Women") is a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in 1361-62.

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De viris illustribus

De viris illustribus, meaning "On Illustrious / Famous Men", represents a trope of ancient Roman exemplary literature that was revived during the Italian Renaissance and inspired the assembly or commissioning of series of portraits of outstanding men—and sometimes, by the sixteenth century, of outstanding women as well—with a high didactic purpose.

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De Viris Illustribus (disambiguation)

De Viris Illustribus, meaning "On Illustrious Men", is a literary genre found in ancient Roman and Renaissance literature.

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Exemplum

An exemplum (Latin for "example", pl. exempla, exempli gratia.

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Influence of Italian humanism on Chaucer

Contact between Geoffrey Chaucer and the Italian humanists Petrarch or Boccaccio has been proposed by scholars for centuries.

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Petrarch

Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 18/19, 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was a scholar and poet of Renaissance Italy who was one of the earliest humanists.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Viris_Illustribus_(Petrarch)

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