Browse Items · Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies (CRRS) Rare Book Collection

Les vrais pourtraits des hommes illustres en piete et doctrine, du trauail desquels Dieu s'est serui en ces derniers temps, pour remettre sus la vraye religion en diuers pays de la chrestienté : auec les descriptions de leur vie & de leurs faits plus memorables : plus, quarantequatre emblemes chrestiens

Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, Biography Portraits, Geneva (Switzerland), Gold tooled bindings, Reformation, Woodcuts

Icones illustrium feminarum veteris testamenti

Tags: 1500-1599, 1600-1699, Antwerp (Belgium), Bible, Biography, Emblem books, Emblems, Engravings, Old Testament, Women, Women in the Bible

The holy state

D158 .F9 1651 Book 2 Title Page Engraving.jpg

Tags: 1600-1699, Biography, Characters and characteristics, Ethics, Maxims, Sammelband

Delle cose notabili della città di Venetia, libri II. Di nuovo aggiuntavi la dichiaratione di tutte l'historie, che si contengono ne i quadri posti nuouamente nelle sale dello Scrutinio, e del gran Consiglio del Palazzo Ducale della Serenissima Republica di Venetia : nella quale si ha piena intelligenza delle più segnalate Vittorie : conseguite di varie nationi del mondo da i Venetiani fatta da Girolamo Bardi Fiorentino.

Tags: 1600-1699, Biography, Description and Travel, Italy, Painting, Venice Italy

[Académie des sciences et des arts: contenant les vies, & les éloges historiques des hommes illustres, qui ont excellé en ces professions depuis environ quatre sic̄les parmy diverses nations de l'Europe: avec leurs pourtraits tirez sur des originaux au naturel, et plusieurs inscriptions funèbres, exactement recueïllies de leurs tombeaux

Tags: 1600-1699, Biography, Brussels (Belgium), Europe, Portraits

Allgemeines helvetisches eydgenössisches oder schweitzerisches Lexicon: in welchem das, was zu wahrer Erkantnuss des ehe- und dissmahligen Zustandes und Geschichten der helvetischen und eydgenössischen oder schweitzerischen auch deroselben zugewandten und verbündeten Landen, auch deren darinnen befindlichen Orten, Geschlechtern, und fürnehmsten Personen, welche sich in geist- und weltlichem Stan, in den Wissenschafften und Rünsten, in dem Krieg und sonsten hevorgethan und noch thun ; erforderlich seyn mag, aus allen denen hievon handlenden gedruckten und geschriebenen Büchern und vielen sonst erhaltenen schrifftlichen Nachrichten in alphabetischer Ordnung vorgestellet wird

Tags: 1700-1799, Bio-bibliography, Biography, Gazetteers, Genealogy, History, Politics and government, Swiss literature, Switzerland, Zurich (Switzerland)

De casibus virorum illustrium

Tags: 1600-1699, Biography

De Philippi Melanchthonis ortu, totius vitae curriculo & morte: implicata rerum memorabilium temporis illius hominumq[ue] ... narratio diligens et accurata

Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, Melanchthon Philipp, Reformation

Il Platina Delle uite et fatti di tutti i sommi pontefici Romani: cominciando da Christo infino a Sisto Quarto: con la giunta di tutti gli altri pontefici, infino a Paulo Terzo pontefice massimo

Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, Popes

In hoc volumine hec continentur: Platyne De vitis maxi[morum] ponti[ficorum] historia periocunda ... Raphaellis Volaterrani Historia de vita quattuor maxi[morum] ponti[ficorum] nuper edita ... Platyne De falso [et] vero bono dialogus ... ; Platyne Contra amores dialogus ... ; Platyne De vera nobilitate dialogus ... ; Platyne De optimo ciue dialogus ... ; Platyne Panegyricus in laudem ... Cardinalis Niceni ... ; Diuersorum academicorum panegyrici in Platyne parentalia

Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, History, Papacy, Popes

Ioannis Baptistae Egnatii ...: de exemplis illustrium virorum Venetae ciuitatis atque aliarum gentium: cum indice rervm notabilivm

Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, Italy

Le theatre du mal'heur: sur qui la fortune represente les diuers accidens tragiques des hommes & dames illustres, plus signalees de l'vniuers, depuis la creation du monde jusques à present

Tags: 1600-1699, Biography, Violent deaths

Le Vite degli Arcadi illustri

Tags: 1700-1799, Biography, Italian poetry, Poets (Italian)

Le vite di dicenoue huomini illustri

Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, Italy

[Plutarchus der fürtrefflichste grichische Historien-schreiber: von den herrlichsten, löblichsten, namhafftsten Historien, Leben, Handlungen und ritterlichen Thaten der männlichsten Helden und herrlichsten Männer

Tags: 1600-1699, Biography, Greece, Rome

Prima [-secvnda] pars Promptvarii iconvm insigniorvm a' secvlo hominum, subiectis eorum vitis, per compendium ex probatissimis autoribus desumptis

Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, Portraits

Suetonij Tra[n]quilli Illustres viri: quos qui Cornelio Nepoti vendicant maxime falli Alexander Minutianus praeceptor luce clarius probauit

Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, Rome

B. Platinae Cremonensis De vita & moribus summorum pontificum historia: cui aliorum omniu[m], qui post Platinam vixerunt ad haec usque tempora, pontificum res gestae sunt additae, nunquam antehac in vulgus datae ; cum indice rerum ac pontificum. Eiusdem De salso & vero bono dialogi tres ... ; Panegyricus in Bessarionem doctiss patriarcham Constantin. ; Oratio ad Paulum II. Pont. Max

Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, Germany, Popes, Woodcuts

Iani Nicii Erythraei Pinacotheca imaginum illustrium, doctrinae vel ingenii laude, virorum: qui, auctore superstite, diem suum obierunt

Tags: 1600-1699, Biography

Les vies des hommes illustres grecs et romains comparees l'vne auec l'autre par Plutarque de Chaeronee ; translatees de grec en francois par Messire Iaques Amyat ...

Tags: 1600-1699, Biography, Greece, Rome

P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolica: P. Rami ... praelectionibus exposita: quibus poëta vita praeposita est

Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, Virgil

The life of Dr. Nicholas Ridley, sometime Bishop of London: shewing the plan and progress of the Reformation

Tags: 1700-1799, Biography, Reformation, Ridley Nicholas

The lives of the noble Grecians and Romains

Tags: 1600-1699, Biography, Greece, Rome

Vitae Plutarchi Cheronei

Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, Greece, Rome

Vite di Plutarco Cheroneo de gli huomini illustri greci et romani nuouamente tradotte per M. Lodouico Domenichi et altri et diligentemente confrontate co' testi greci per M. Lionardo Ghini ; con la vita dell' auttore descritta da Thomaso Porcacchi & co' sommari a ciascuna vita con tauole, & dichiarationi assai ; in modo che non pareche, si possa desiderare cosa alcuna alla compiuta perfettione dell'opera ; è questo, secondo l'ordine da noi posto, il nono anello della nostra collana historica de' greci.

Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, Greece, Rome

Pauli Iouij Nouocomensis Episcopi Nucerini Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium

Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, Military biography

Flavii Philostrati De vitis sophistarum libri duo

Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, Greek, Philosophers, Philosophy, Sophists (Greek philosophy)

The works of Francis Bacon ... in five volumes

Tags: 1700-1799, Bacon Francis, Biography, Philosophy

Vitae quorundam eruditissimorum et illustrium virorum

Tags: 1700-1799, Bainbridge John, Bio-bibliography, Biography, Briggs Henry, Cosin John, Dee John, Great Britain, Greaves John, London England, Science, Ussher James, Young Patrick, Young Peter

Select remains of the learned John Ray, M.A. and F.R.S.: with his life

Tags: 1700-1799, Biography, Biologists, England, Great Britain, Naturalists, Ray John

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