Biography, historiography, and modes of philosophizing : the tradition of collective biography in early modern Europe
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Biography, historiography, and modes of philosophizing : the tradition of collective biography in early modern Europe
（The Renaissance Society of America / editor-in-chief, Craig Kallendorf, . Texts and studies series ; v. 7）
Brill, c2017
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"This volume grew out of two workshops held at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, on 28-29 October 2010 and 3-4 June 2011"--Acknowledgments
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
By way of essays and a selection of primary sources in parallel text, Biography, Historiography, and Modes of Philosophizing provides an introduction to a vast, significant, but neglected corpus of early modern literature: collective biography. It focuses especially on the various related strands of political, philosophical, and intellectual and cultural biography as well as on the intersection between biography, historiography, and philosophy. Individual texts from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century are presented as examples of how the ancient collective biographical tradition - as represented above all by Plutarch, Suetonius, Diogenes Laertius, and Jerome - was received and transformed in the Renaissance and beyond in accordance with the needs of humanism, religious controversy, politics, and the development of modern philosophy and science.
Table of Contents
The publication of this volume was made possible through the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, using funds provided to Collaborative Research Center 644 "Transformations of Antiquity" (SFB644).
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Patrick Baker
Introduction
I. The History of Philosophy and the persona of the Philosopher
Manuela Kahle
Spoliating Diogenes Laertius: Giannozzo Manetti's Use(s) of the Lives of the Philosophers
Giannozzo Manetti
De illustribus longaevis, "Socrates"
On Famous Men of Great Age, "Life of Socrates"
Giannozzo Manetti
Vita Socratis (excerpt)
Life of Socrates (excerpt)
II. Encyclopedic, Historical, and Moral Biography
Marianne Pade
Lives Transformed: John Whethamstede's Use of Plutarch's Lives
John Wethamstede
Granarium, pars prima, "Paulus"
Granarium, Part One, "Paulus"
III. Bio-Bibliography and Cultural History (I): The History of a Cultural Movement
Patrick Baker
Collective Biography as Historiography: The De viris illustribus of Bartolomeo Facio
Bartolomeo Facio
De viris illustribus, "De poetis" et "De oratoribus"
On Famous Men, "Poets" and "Orators"
IV. Bio-Bibliography and Cultural History (II): Nationalism and Apologetics
Johannes Helmrath
Perception of the Middle Ages and Self-Perception in German Humanism: Johannes Trithemius and the Cathalogus illustrium virorum Germaniam ... exornantium
Johannes Trithemius
Cathalogus illustrium virorum Germaniam suis ingeniis et lucubrationibus omnifariam exornantium (excerpts)
Catalogue of the Illustrious Men Who Have Adorned Germany in Every Way with Their Talents and Tireless Studies (excerpts)
V. Philosophical and Religious Didacticism
Asaph Ben-Tov
Philipp Melanchthon's De Aristotele (1544): Biography as a Pedagogical Argument
Philipp Melanchthon
Oratio de Aristotele
On Aristotle
VI. Philosophizing and the persona of the Philosopher
Michael Weichenhan
Biography as a Medium of Philosophy and the History of Philosophy: Pierre Gassendi
Pierre Gassendi
De vita et moribus Epicuri, Epistola dedicatoria
On the Life and Character of Epicurus, Dedicatory Letter
VII. Philosophical Biography and the History of Philosophy
Leo Catana
From persona to systema: Heumann's Dethronement of Porphyry's Life of Plotinus and the Biographical Model for Writing the History of Philosophy
Leo Catana (translator and editor) and Tue Sovso (editor)
Christoph August Heumann "Das Leben Plotini vom Porphyrio beschrieben"
"The Life of Plotinus Described by Porphyry"
Index
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