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De Viris Illustribus, meaning "concerning illustrious men", represents a genre of literature which evolved during the Italian Renaissance in imitation of the exemplary literature of Ancient Rome. It inspired the widespread commissioning of groups of matching portraits of famous men from history ( Uomini Famosi ) to serve as moral role models.
De Viris Illustribus (On Illustrious Men) is a collection of short biographies of 135 authors, written in Latin, by the 4th-century Latin Church Father Jerome. He completed this work at Bethlehem in 392–393 AD. The work consists of a prologue plus 135 chapters, each consisting of a brief biography.
- De viris illustribus
- Jerome
- AD 393
He wrote nine epistles to seven churches: To the Romans one, To the Corinthians two, To the Galatians one, To the Ephesians one, To the Philippians one, To the Colossians one, To the Thessalonians two; and besides these to his disciples, To Timothy two, To Titus one, To Philemon one.
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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.
Apr 22, 2024 · De Viris Illustribus (1) [Aurelius Victor] : De Viris Illustribus. Sections 1 - 49. This collection of very short biographies was at one time attributed to Aurelius Victor. It is now generally agreed that it cannot have been written by him; but it has often been combined with the De Caesaribus to create a brief summary of all ancient Roman history.
In St. Jerome: Major literary works of St. Jerome. His catalog of Christian authors, De viris illustribus (“Concerning Illustrious Men”), was written in 392/393 to counter pagan pride in pagan culture. Against the monk Jovinian, who asserted the equality of virginity and marriage, he wrote a polemical diatribe Adversus Jovinianum (393) that ...
Recently there has been a renewed interest in the text and sources of the De viris illustribus. In the search for sources, however, the nature and character of the work itself have been obscured.2 The D VI deserves to be. examined on its own merits, because of its popularity in the Middle Ages.
