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- Tags: Biography
[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
Author: Isaac Bullart
Date: 1682 or 1695
Place: [A Bruxelles], [Brussels]
Publisher: Imprimé par les soins de l'autheur ..., se vendent chez François Foppens
[Plutarchus der fürtrefflichste grichische Historien-schreiber: von den herrlichsten, löblichsten, namhafftsten Historien, Leben, Handlungen und ritterlichen Thaten der männlichsten Helden und herrlichsten Männer
Author: Plutarch
Date: 1616
Place: [Gedruckt zu Franckfurth am Mayn
Publisher: Durch Johann Bringern
Actes des martyrs deduits en sept livres: depuis le temps de Wiclef & de Hus, jusques à present, contenans un recueil de vraye histoire ecclesiastique ...
Author: Jean Crespin
Date: 1564
Place: [Genève
Publisher: Jean Crespin
Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, Christianity, Church history, Persecution
Amyntor; or, A defence of Milton's life. Containing, I. A general apology for all writings of that kind. II. A catalogue of books attributed in the primitive times to Jesus Christ, his Apostles and other eminent persons ... III. A complete history of the book entitul'd Icon basilike, proving Dr. Gauden, and not King Charles the First, to be the author of it
Author: John Toland
Date: 1699
Place: London
Publisher: Printed, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster
An apology for the life of Colley Cibber, comedian, and late patentee of the Theatre-Royal: with an historical view of the stage during his own time
Author: Colley Cibber
Date: 1750
Place: London
Publisher: Printed for R. Dodsley
An inquiry into the share, which King Charles I. had in the transactions of the Earl of Glamorgan: afterwards Marquis of Worcester, for bringing over a body of Irish rebels to assist that King, in the years 1645 and 1646: in which Mr. Carte's imperfect account of that affair, and his use of the MS. Memoirs of the Pope's nuncio Rinuccini, are impartially considered: the whole drawn up from the best authorities printed and manuscript
Author: Thomas Birch
Date: 1756
Place: London
Publisher: Printed for A. Millar
Antiquitates Christianae, or, The history of the life and death of the Holy Jesus: as also the lives, acts and martyrdoms of his apostles: in two parts, the first part, containing the life of Christ
Author: Jeremy Taylor
Date: 1703
Place: London
Publisher: Printed by J. Leake for John Meredith, in trust for Royston and Elizabeth Meredith
Tags: 1700-1799, Biography, Jesus Christ
Antiquitates patrum et ecclesiasticae: oder, Leben, Wandel, Lehr, Todt und Marter der Apostolischen Väter, welche zur Zeit der Aposteln oder gleich darnach gelebt haben, wie auch der der vornemsten Väter in den vier ersten Jahr-Hunderten: nebst einer Einleitung von dem Frotgang der Christlichen Religion ... von dem Zustand des Heydenthums unter den ersten Christlichen Käysern
Author: William Cave
Date: 1701
Place: Bremen
Publisher: Gedruckt und verlegt bey H. Brauer
Tags: 1700-1799, Biography, Church Fathers
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
Author: Platina
Date: 1529
Place: [Coloniae]
Publisher: Ex officina Eucharij Cervicorni
Certain most godly, fruitful and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of God: as in the late bloodye persecution here within this realme, gaue their lyves for the defence of Christes Holy Gospel: written in the tyme of theyr affliction and cruell imprysonment
Author: Miles Coverdale
Date: 1564
Place: Imprinted at London
Publisher: By John Day
Christophori SaxI Onomasticon literarium, sive, Nomenclator historico-criticus praestantissimorum omnis aetatis, populi, artiumq[ue] formulae scriptorum: item monumentorum maxime illustrium, ab orbe condito vsque ad saeculi, quod vivimus, tempora digestus, et verisimilibus, quantum fieri potuit, annorum notis accommodatus
Author: Christoph Saxe
Date: 1775
Place: Traiecti ad Rhenum
Publisher: Apud Gisb. Tiem. à Paddenburg, Abrah. à Paddenburg, & Ioh. van Schoonhoven, & Soc
Tags: 1700-1799, Armorial bindings, Bibliography, Biography
Cornelius Nepos De uiris illustribus. Cui accessit Ioannis Boccatij uice commentarij, Rom[anae] historiae locupletissimus index ... Item de ortu & authoritate sacri Ro[mani] imperij liber I Aeneae Syluij Piccolominei Senensis ... Huic adhaeret Pomponij Laeti libellus de Rom[anorum] legibus
Date: 1544
Place: Argentorati
Publisher: Excudebat M. Iacobus Cammer Lander Moguntinus
De casibus virorum illustrium
Author: Antonio Maria Graziani
Date: 1680
Place: Lutetiae Parisiorum
Publisher: Apud Antonium Cellier
De Philippi Melanchthonis ortu, totius vitae curriculo & morte: implicata rerum memorabilium temporis illius hominumq[ue] ... narratio diligens et accurata
Author: Joachim Camerarius
Date: 1592
Place: Lipsiae
Publisher: Impensis Valentini Voegelini
Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, Melanchthon Philipp, Reformation
De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus: cum adiunctis indicibus vndecim & breui chronologia ab orbe condito vsque ad annum MDCXII
Author: Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino
Date: 1613
Place: Coloniae Agrippinae
Publisher: Sumptibus Bernardi Gualtheri
Della origine, et de' fatti delle famiglie illvstri d'Italia: libro primo
Author: Francesco Sansovino
Date: 1582
Place: Vinegia
Publisher: Presso A. Salicato
Tags: 1500-1599, Biography, Genealogies, History, Italy
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.
Author: Francesco Sansovino
Date: 1606
Place: Vinegia
Publisher: Presso Altobello Salicato
Epiphanii Episcopi Cypri De prophetarum uita & interitu co[m]mentarius Graecus unà cum interpretatione è regione Latina, Albano Torino interprete. Sophronii Graece & Hieronymi Latine Libellus de uita euangelistarum / cum scholiis Eras. Rot. Parabolae & miracula quae à singulis evangelistis narra[n]tur / Grȩcis uersibus à Gregorio Nazianzeno conscripta ; addita interpretatione Latina. D. Hieronymi Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum uitae / per Sophronium è Latina lingua in Graecam translatae ; et scholijs per Eras. Rot. illustratae. Gennadii Illustrium uirorum catalogus, ob historiae cognitionem lectu non indignus.
Date: 1529
Place: Basileae [Basel, Switzerland]
Publisher: Apud And. Cratandrum
Tags: 1500-1599, Bible, Biography, Church Fathers, Erasmus Desiderius
Eunapius Sardianus, De vitis philosophorum et sophistarum : nunc primum Græcè & Latinè editus
Author: Eunapius.
Place: Antuerpiæ
Publisher: Ex officina Christophori Plantini.
Tags: Ancient, Biography, Philosophers
Flavii Philostrati De vitis sophistarum libri duo
Author: Philostratus
Date: 1516
Place: Strasbourg
Publisher: Ex aedibus Schurerianus
Historia et concordia euangelica: quidquid in alijs hactenus editis ad digerendos Euangelistas aptius videbatur, ita complectens: vt quàmplurimis in locis recèns contexta & instaurata, articulis & versiculis distincta, nouis annotationibus, cartâ etiam geographicâ, & octo locupletissimis indicibus instructa, nunc in lucem prodeat
Date: 1660
Place: Parisijs
Publisher: Apud Carolum Savreux
Tags: 1600-1699, Bible, Biography, Jesus Christ
Historical collections of the noble families of Cavendishe, Holles, Vere, Harley, and Ogle: with the lives of the most remarkable persons: The lives of the earls of Oxford, concluding with Aubrey de Vere, the twentieth, and last earl: Also the lives of those famous generals, Horace, lord Vere of Tillbury, and Sir Francis Vere, his brother: Containing curious private memoirs: And prints of the principal persons, engraved by Mr. George Vertue, from original pictures
Author: Arthur Collins
Date: 1752
Place: London
Publisher: Printed for E. Withers
Iani Nicii Erythraei Pinacotheca imaginum illustrium, doctrinae vel ingenii laude, virorum: qui, auctore superstite, diem suum obierunt
Author: Janus Nicius Erythraeus
Date: 1692
Place: Lipsiae
Publisher: Sumptibus Io. Frid. GleditschI
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
Author: Platina
Date: 1543
Place: In Venetia
Publisher: Per Michele Tramezzino
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
Author: Platina
Date: 1511
Place: Venetiis
Publisher: A Philippo Pincio Ma[n]tuano
Indice degl'uomini illustri
Author: Girolamo Ruscelli
Date: 1572
Place: In Venetia
Publisher: Appresso Comin da Trino di Monferrato
Ioannis Baptistae Egnatii ...: de exemplis illustrium virorum Venetae ciuitatis atque aliarum gentium: cum indice rervm notabilivm
Author: Giovanni Battista Egnazio
Date: 1554
Place: Venetijs
Publisher: Apud Nicolaum Tridentinum
Iohan. VVolfij I.C. Lectionum memorabilium et reconditarum centenarij XVI: habet hic lector doctorum Ecclesiae, vatum, politicorum, philosophorum, historicorum, aliorumq[ue] sapientium & eruditorum pia, grauia, mira, arcana & stupenda, iucunda simul & vtilia, dicta, scripta, atq[ue] facta
Author: Johann Wolf
Date: 1600
Place: Lauingae
Publisher: Sumtibus autoris impressit Leonhardus Rheinmichel
Isaaci Casauboni De rebus sacris & ecclesiasticis, exercitationes XVI: ad Cardinalis Baronii prolegomena in Annales et primam eorum partem, de D.N. Iesu Christi Natiuitate, Vita, Passione, Assumptione: cum prolegomenis auctoris, in quibus de Baronianis Annalibus candidè disputatur
Author: Isaac Casaubon
Date: 1655
Place: Geneuae
Publisher: Sumptibus Ioannis Antonii & Samuelis De Tournes
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
Author: Pierre Boitel
Date: 1621
Place: A Paris
Publisher: Chez Pierre Billene
Tags: 1600-1699, Biography, Violent deaths