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Great short biographies of ancient times, the middle ages and the renaissance; a collection of short biographies, literary portraits and memoirs chosen from the literatures of the ancient world,
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Great short biographies of ancient times, the middle ages and the renaissance; a collection of short biographies, literary portraits and memoirs chosen from the literatures of the ancient world,

Author: Barrett H Clark
Publisher: [New York] A. & C. Boni, 1932.
Series: Bonibooks
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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