{"product_id":"biographical-writings","title":"Biographical Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Renaissance recovery of ancient biographical writers such as Plutarch, Suetonius, and Jerome led to a wave of imitations by Renaissance authors from Petrarch to Machiavelli. The orator, diplomat, and statesman Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459), an expert in Greek and Hebrew as well as Latin, was among the leading humanist biographers of the Renaissance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection brings together his famous biographies of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, which helped establish the canon of Italian literature, as well as his parallel lives of Socrates and Seneca, which remained the standard biographical sources for those philosophers throughout the early modern period. It also includes extended excerpts from two works, \u003ci\u003eOn Famous Men of Great Age\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Jews and the Gentiles\u003c\/i\u003e, which contain biographical entries on a range of Italian literary figures from Brunetto Latini and Guido Cavalcanti to Coluccio Salutati and Leonardo Bruni.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rolf Bagemihl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42849614102589,"sku":"9780674011342","price":55.76,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780674011342_5d9b3b84-407f-474c-a64e-a1c35a6eff68.jpg?v=1767039436","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/biographical-writings","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}