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De viris illustribus (English: On Illustrious Men) is an unfinished collection of biographies, written in Latin, by the 14th century Italian author Francesco Petrarca. These biographies are a set of Lives similar in idea to Plutarch's Parallel Lives. The works were unfinished. However he was famous enough for these and other works to receive two invitations to be crowned poet laureate. He received these invitations on exactly the same day, April 8, 1341, one being from the Paris University and the other from the Roman Senate. He accepted the Roman invitation. It is composed of two books:

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  • De viris illustribus (English: On Illustrious Men) is an unfinished collection of biographies, written in Latin, by the 14th century Italian author Francesco Petrarca. These biographies are a set of Lives similar in idea to Plutarch's Parallel Lives. The works were unfinished. However he was famous enough for these and other works to receive two invitations to be crowned poet laureate. He received these invitations on exactly the same day, April 8, 1341, one being from the Paris University and the other from the Roman Senate. He accepted the Roman invitation. It is composed of two books: * Liber I includes 24 to 36 moral biographies (depending on version) of heroes of Greek and Roman antiquity (much like Polybius The Histories and Plutarch's figures in his Lives). * Liber II includes 12 moral biographies of Biblical and mythical figures (much like that found in the Hebrew Bible, Greek mythology, and Islamic prophets). There is as yet no English translation. Harvard University has it under contract to appear in the I Tatti Renaissance Library sometime in the future. (en)
  • Il De viris illustribus (Vite degli uomini illustri) è un'opera in prosa latina composta da Francesco Petrarca, contenente 36 biografie di uomini illustri. Petrarca cominciò a lavorarvi a partire dall'estate del 1337, durante il suo soggiorno a Valchiusa. La redazione fu rallentata già nel 1338 a causa del nuovo progetto di un poema epico in latino, intitolato Africa. Il poeta continuò a lavorare sul De viris illustribus fino alla sua morte, ma l'opera rimase incompiuta. Il progetto originario contemplava una serie di biografie di antichi eroi romani, a partire da Romolo e verosimilmente fino a includere i primi imperatori romani (forse fino a Tito). Entro il 1343 erano state composte le prime 23 biografie, fino a Catone il Censore. Le biografie sono di lunghezza diseguale: alcune piuttosto brevi, altre più lunghe; quella di Scipione l'Africano, personaggio caro a Petrarca, era considerevolmente ampia. Petrarca ricominciò a scrivere nell'estate del 1351, di nuovo a Valchiusa: ma invece di continuare con la successione cronologica dei personaggi, ampliò il piano dell'opera includendo figure anteriori a Romolo: perciò ripartì scrivendo dodici nuove biografie, da Adamo ad Ercole. Fonte privilegiata di Petrarca fu l'opera storiografica di Tito Livio. (it)
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  • De viris illustribus (English: On Illustrious Men) is an unfinished collection of biographies, written in Latin, by the 14th century Italian author Francesco Petrarca. These biographies are a set of Lives similar in idea to Plutarch's Parallel Lives. The works were unfinished. However he was famous enough for these and other works to receive two invitations to be crowned poet laureate. He received these invitations on exactly the same day, April 8, 1341, one being from the Paris University and the other from the Roman Senate. He accepted the Roman invitation. It is composed of two books: (en)
  • Il De viris illustribus (Vite degli uomini illustri) è un'opera in prosa latina composta da Francesco Petrarca, contenente 36 biografie di uomini illustri. Petrarca cominciò a lavorarvi a partire dall'estate del 1337, durante il suo soggiorno a Valchiusa. La redazione fu rallentata già nel 1338 a causa del nuovo progetto di un poema epico in latino, intitolato Africa. Il poeta continuò a lavorare sul De viris illustribus fino alla sua morte, ma l'opera rimase incompiuta. Fonte privilegiata di Petrarca fu l'opera storiografica di Tito Livio. (it)
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