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Like the other arts, biography stirs into fresh life with the Renaissance in the 15th century. Its most significant examples were autobiographical, as has already been mentioned. Biography was chiefly limited to uninspired panegyrics of Italian princes by their court humanists, such as Simonetta’s life of the great condottiere, Francesco Sforza, duke of Milan. During the first part of the 16th century in England, now stimulated by the “new learning” of Erasmus, John Colet, Thomas More, and others, there were written three works that can be regarded as the initiators of modern biography: More’s History of Richard III, William Roper’s ...(100 of 9625 words)

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