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BRIEF LIVES IBD

JOHN AUBREY
COSIMO CLASSICS
08 / 2020
9781646792771
Inglés

Sinopsis

&ldquo,Writing is, among things, the place where we can help ourselves cope with the dark parts of our living.&rdquo, &mdash,John AubreyBrief Lives&mdash,Chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey, between the Years 1669 & 1696 is a collection of short, colorful, gossipy biographies written by John Aubrey in the last part of the 17th century. áIt took two centuries, however, before Aubrey received real recognition as a great biographer. It was in 1898 that Reverend Andrew Clark (1856&ndash,1922), a minister and editor, edited the transcript of Brief Lives that established Aubrey&rsquo,s name as the man who invented biography.Clark&rsquo,s edition was published in two volumes: Volume I from letters A to H and Volume II from I to V, with biographies of distinguished 17th-century Englishmen such as Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne, Walter Harvey, Thomas Hobbes, áRobert Hooke, Sir Walter Raleigh and William Shakespeare.