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Biographies in Latin

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Augustan History
late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman Emperors, their junior colleagues, designated heirs and usurpers of the period 117–284; much of its content is regarded as fictional
The Twelve Caesars
Biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 Roman emperors by Suetonius
Vita Karoli Magni
biography of Charlemagne written by Einhard
Agricola
Book by Tacitus on the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola
Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum
1553 book published in Lyon, France - written by Guillaume Rouillé
De mulieribus claris
14th-century who's who by Giovanni Boccaccio
De casibus virorum illustrium
work by Giovanni Boccaccio
Vita Hludovici
anonymous biography of Louis the Pious from AD 814 to 840
Histories of Alexander the Great
work by Quintus Curtius Rufus
Vita Ædwardi Regis
anonymous Latin manuscript made c. 1067, commissioned by Edith, wife of King Edward the Confessor, dealing with English history before the Norman Conquest and the holiness of King Edward