[743] Lived about the same time as Anastasius; author of a history of the bishopric of Ravenna. Wattenbach, l. c. 227.
[744] How early Philostratus was used in the same way, I am unable to say. Suetonius was no doubt taken as a model in times still earlier. Besides the life of Charles the Great, written by Eginhard, examples from the twelfth century are offered by William of Malmesbury in his descriptions of William the Conqueror ([p. 446] sqq., 452 sqq.), of William II. (pp. 494, 504), and of Henry I. (p. 640).
[745] See the admirable criticism in Landau, Boccaccio, 180-182.
[746] See above, p. 131. The original (Latin) was first published in 1847 at Florence, by Galletti, with the title, Philippi Villani Liber de civitatis Florentiae famosis civibus; an old Italian translation has been often printed since 1747, last at Trieste, 1858. The first book, which treats of the earliest history of Florence and Rome, has never been printed. The chapter in Villani, De semipoetis, i.e. those who wrote in prose as well as in verse, or those who wrote poems besides following some other profession, is specially interesting.
[747] Here we refer the reader to the biography of L. B. Alberti, from which extracts are given above ([p. 136]), and to the numerous Florentine biographies in Muratori, in the Archivio Storico, and elsewhere. The life of Alberti is probably an autobiography, l. c. note 2.
[748] Storia Fiorentina, ed. F. L. Polidori, Florence, 1838.
[749] De viris illustribus, in the publications of the Stuttgarter liter. Vereins, No. i. Stuttg. 1839. Comp. C. Voigt, ii. 324. Of the sixty-five biographies, twenty-one are lost.
[750] His Diarium Romanum from 1472 to 1484, in Murat. xiii. 81-202.
[751] Ugolini Verini poetae Florentini (a contemporary of Lorenzo, a pupil of Landinus, fol. 13, and teacher of Petrus Crinitus, fol. 14), De illustratione urbis Florentinae libri tres, Paris, 1583, deserves mention, esp. lib. 2. Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio are spoken of and characterised without a word of blame. For several women, see fol. 11.
[752] Petri Candidi Decembrii Vita Philippi Mariae Vicecomitis, in Murat. xx. Comp above, p. 38.