# De viris illustribus compiled as a book of exemplary ancient lives

Date: 1350

## The fact

De viris illustribus gathers Latin lives of ancient figures as moral-civic examples, a long-term compilation of [Petrarch](/people/petrarch)’s middle decades, stored here at year-level 1350 as a working public form. It is not [Plutarch](/people/plutarch)’s parallel lives and not a later school reader’s copyright. It is one more humanist prose instrument beside Africa and the letters.

## Context

Exemplary biography is a teaching genre. Shared with scribes and with the ancient authors excerpted. It is not a welfare Fact about any one ancient king. Later Italian uses of ‘illustrious men’ as national gallery are reception.

## Evidence and sources

Treccani at https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca/ lists De viris among the Latin prose. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch independently treats the Latin historical-moral works. Vatican manuscript neighbourhood at https://www.vaticanlibrary.va/ is archival, not the act.

Official or archival record: Treccani — Francesco Petrarca (https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca/; Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana).

## Significance

Exemplary lives are an education path of high confidence and modest weight.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a lifetime De viris project. Not established: a unique 1350 dedication day or a measured civic-virtue series. Collective ancient lives as civic school-book, working 1350, not Plutarch and not a national gallery. Official locator https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca/ is not independent locator https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch. Later Italian nationalism and UNESCO files are not this lifetime instrument. Collective ancient lives as civic school-book, working 1350, not Plutarch and not a national gallery. Official locator https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca/ is not independent locator https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch. Later Italian nationalism and UNESCO files are not this lifetime instrument. Collective ancient lives as civic school-book, working 1350, not Plutarch and not a national gallery. Official locator https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca/ is not independent locator https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch. Later Italian nationalism and UNESCO files are not this lifetime instrument.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. De viris is not the Canzoniere and not Cola’s tribunate. Mixed effects of De viris illustribus compiled as a book of exemplary ancient lives are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of De viris illustribus compiled as a book of exemplary ancient lives. Naming Petrarch does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1350-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Petrarch: https://factrail.ai/people/petrarch

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pet-de-viris-illustribus