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Top 30 analogous words or synonyms for virorum

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Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum The modern term obscurantism derives from the title of this work. As the theologians in the book intended to burn "un-Christian" works, Enlightenment philosophers used the term for conservative, especially religious enemies of progressive Enlightenment and its concept of the liberal spread of knowledge.
De Casibus Virorum Illustrium De Casibus Virorum Illustrium ("On the Fates of Famous Men") is a work of 56 biographies in Latin prose composed by the Florentine poet Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo in the form of moral stories of the falls of famous people, similar to his work of 106 biographies "On Famous Women".
De Casibus Virorum Illustrium "De casibus" stems from the tradition of exemplary literature works about famous people. It showed with the lives of these people that it was not only biographies but snapshots of their moral virtues. Boccaccio relates biographies of famous people that were at the height of happiness and fell to misfortune when they least expected it. This sad event is sometimes referred to as a ""de casibus tragedy"" after this work. William Shakespeare created characters based on this phenomenon as did Christopher Marlowe.
Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum The Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum (English: Letters of Obscure Men) was a celebrated collection of satirical Latin letters which appeared 1515-1519 in Hagenau, Germany. They support the German Humanist scholar Johann Reuchlin and they mock the doctrines and modes of living of the scholastics and monks, mainly by pretending to be letters from fanatic Christian theologians discussing whether all Jewish books should be burned as un-Christian or not.
De Casibus Virorum Illustrium "De casibus" is an encyclopedia of historical biography and a part of the classical tradition of historiography. It deals with the fortunes and calamities of famous people starting with the biblical Adam, going to mythological and ancient people, then to people of Boccaccio's own time in the fourteenth century. The work was so successful it spawned what has been referred to as the "De casibus" tradition, influencing many other famous authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate, and Laurent de Premierfait. De casibus also inspired character figures in works like "The Canterbury Tales", "The Monk's Tale", the "Fall of Princes" (c. 1438), "Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes" (c. 1409), and "Caida de principles" (a fifteenth-century Spanish collection), and "A Mirror for Magistrates" (a very popular sixteenth-century continuation written by William Baldwin and others).