Biography, historiography, and modes of philosophizing : : the tradition of collective biography in early modern Europe / / edited by Patrick Baker.

• TeilnehmendeR: Baker, Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: The Renaissance Society of America 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (426 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Front Matter --; Introduction --; Spoliating Diogenes Laertius: Giannozzo Manetti’s Use(s) of the Lives of the Philosophers /; Giannozzo Manetti: On Famous Men of Great Age, “Life of Socrates” /; Giannozzo Manetti: Life of Socrates (excerpt) --; Bibliography --; Lives Transformed: John Whethamstede’s Use of Plutarch’s Lives /; John Wethamstede: Granarium, Part One, “Paulus” /; Collective Biography as Historiography: The De viris illustribus of Bartolomeo Facio --; Bartolomeo Facio: On Illustrious Men, “Poets” and “Orators” --; Perception of the Middle Ages and Self-Perception in German Humanism: Johannes Trithemius and the Cathalogus illustrium virorum Germaniam … exornantium /; Johannes Trithemius: Catalogue of the Illustrious Men Who Have Adorned Germany in Every Way with Their Talents and Tireless Studies (selections) /; Philipp Melanchthon’s De Aristotele (1544): Biography as a Pedagogical Argument /; Philipp Melanchthon: On Aristotle (1544) /; Biography as a Medium of Philosophy and the History of Philosophy: Pierre Gassendi /; Pierre Gassendi: On the Life and Character of Epicurus, Dedicatory Letter /; From persona to systema: Heumann’s Dethronement of Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus and the Biographical Model for Writing the History of Philosophy /; Christoph August Heumann: “The Life of Plotinus Described by Porphyry” /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004339752
• ISSN: 2212-3091
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Patrick Baker.

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.