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| Material Type: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Barrett H Clark |
| OCLC Number: | 4717518 |
| Notes: | First published in 1928 as the first part of Great short biographies of the world. |
| Description: | xi, 615 p. 21 cm. |
| Contents: | [1.] The ancient world: Socrates -from the Lives of eminent philosophers / by Diogenes Laertius -- Alexander the Great -from Plutarch's lives / by Plutarch -- Cato the Younger -from Plutarch's lives / by Plutarch -- Titus Pomponius Atticus -from the Lives / by Nepos -- dtAugustus Caesar -from the Lives of the twelve Caesars / by Suetonius -- Cnaeus Julius Agricola / by Tacitus -- Jesus of Nazareth -from the New Testament / by Luke -- [2.] Medieval Europe: Charlemagne / by Einhard -- Saint Francis of Assisi -from The golden legend / by Jacobus de Voragine -- Dante Alighieri / by Giovanni Boccaccio -- Jeanne D'Arc -from the Monday chats / by C.A. Sainte-Beuve -- François Villon / by Robert Louis Stevenson -- [3.] Renaissance Europe: Filippo Brunelleschi -from Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors, and architects / by Giorgio Vasari -- Christopher Columbus / by Alphonse de Lamartine -- Leonardo Da Vinci -from Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors, and architects / by Giorgio Vasari -- Sir Thomas More / by William Roper -- Sixtus V -from the History of the popes / by Leopold von Ranke -- Mary Queen of Scots -from the Collection of the ladies / by Pierre de Bourdeille Sieur de Brantôme -- Richard Hooker -from the Lives / by Isaak Walton -- Lope de Vega / by George Henry Lewes -- The Earl of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham / by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. |
| Series Title: | Bonibooks |
| Other Titles: | Biographies of ancient times. |
| Responsibility: | by Barrett H. Clark. |
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