De viris illustribus
De viris illustribus (Latin for "About famous men") is the title of various collections of short biographies by various authors:
- Suetonius - preserved in fragments; Contained brief biographies of celebrities in Roman literature
- De viris illustribus (Nepos) by Cornelius Nepos - partially preserved; Biographies of non-Roman generals and Latin historians
- De viris illustribus , a biographical history of the Roman royal era and republic from the first half of the 4th century; Author unknown
- Hieronymus - 135 biographies about the church writers of the time (-419 AD)
- Gennadius of Marseille - Extension of the collection of Jerome
- Francesco Petrarca - 36 biographies
Similar works:
- Giovanni Boccaccio - De casibus virorum illustrium and De mulieribus claris (a collection of 106 biographies of famous women)