Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
De Vitis et Moribus Philosophorum (trans. Ambrogio Traversari, 1546 Lyon)
Diogenes Laertius; Ambrogio Traversari (trans.)
Latin
1546
496 pages
First from Latin
English translations of this work exist from another source language, but this specific text has never been translated.
Ambrogio Traversari's Latin translation of Diogenes Laertius's 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' was a significant humanist work, but it has never been translated into English. All existing English translations of Diogenes Laertius are direct translations from the original Greek text. Therefore, this Latin version remains untranslated in English.
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This 1546 edition of Diogenes Laertius gathers the lives and blunt wisdom of antiquity's greatest thinkers into one volume. Readers will find the origins of Western logic, the rise of political tyranny, and the brutal honesty of philosophers who challenged everything.
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