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• Architects -- Italy -- Rome -- Biography
• Architects -- Italy -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
• Rome -- Biography -- Early works to 1800

• Vite de'pittori, scultori ed architetti, che anno lavorato in Roma (Presso Gregorio Settari ..., 1772), by Giovanni Battista Passeri, Giovanni Gaetano Bottari, Giovanni Lodovico Bianconi, and Giovanni Baglione (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leben der Maler, Bildhauer und Baumeister welche in Rom gearbeitet haben und zwischen den Jahren 1641-1673 gestorben sind (In der Breitkopfischen Buchhandlung, 1786), by Giovanni Battista Passeri and Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf (page images at HathiTrust)

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• L'architettura Cosmatesca (Tip. Salvi e Compo., 1860), by Camillo Boito, Carlo Tenca, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Abcedario pittorico : nel quale compendiosamente sono descritte le patrie, i maestri, ed i tempi, ne' quali fiorirono circa quattro mila professori di pittura, di scultura, e d'architettura : diviso in tre parti ... (Per Costantino Pisarri ..., 1704), by Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi and Costantino Pisarri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vita di Vincenzio Scamozzi architetto (Presso Giambatista Pasquali, 1770), by Tommaso Temanza, Giovanni Battista Pasquali, and Giovanni Battista Brustolon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vite de' pittori, scultori e architetti bergamaschi (Dalla stamperia Locatelli, 1793), by Francesco Maria Tassi, Ferdinando Caccia, Pietro Roncali, and Girolamo Mantelli (page images at HathiTrust)

• The lives of celebrated architects, ancient and modern : with historical and critical observations on their works, and on the principles of the art (Printed for J. Taylor, Architectural Library, High Holborn, 1826), by Francesco Milizia, J. Taylor, Eliza Taylor Cresy, and England) I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vita di M. Jacopo Sansovino, scultore e architetto della Repubblica di Venezia (Appresso Antonio Zatta e figli, 1789), by Giorgio Vasari and Antonio Zatta (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plutarch's Lives (based on the "Dryden" translation), by Plutarch, ed. by Arthur Hugh Clough (Gutenberg text; 4.3 MB)
• Plutarch's Lives (in Greek and English), by Plutarch, trans. by Bernadotte Perrin (HTML at Perseus)
• Plutarch's Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North (Temple Plutarch edition, in 10 volumes; London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1898-1924), by Plutarch, ed. by W. H. D. Rouse, trans. by Thomas North
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume 7: multiple formats at archive.org
• Shakespeare's Plutarch: Being a Selection From the Lives in North's Plutarch Which Illustrate Shakespeare's Plays (London : Macmillan and co., 1875), by Plutarch, ed. by Walter W. Skeat, trans. by Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's Plutarch (2 volumes; New York: Duffield and Co.; London: Chatto and Windus, 1909), by Plutarch, ed. by Tucker Brooke, trans. by Thomas North
  • Volume I (sources for Julius Caeasar): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (sources for Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus): multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Roman conversations (Printed by P. Norman ... for R. Bickerstaff, (successor to W. Brown) ..., 1797), by Joseph Wilcocks, S. Phillips, and Benjamin West (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from Urbis Romae viri inlustres, with notes, illustrations, maps, prose exercises, word groups, and vocabulary (Ginn & Company, 1905), by C. F. L'Homond and Benjamin L. D'Ooge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plutarch's Lives (Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1914-1926., 1959), by Plutarch and Bernadotte Perrin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vioi parallēloi (Ek tēs Typographias I. M. Everartou, 1809), by Plutarch and Adamantios Koraēs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cornelii Nepotis Vitae excellentium imperatorum quod extant, cum Vita Catonis et Attici et Fragmentis. (Sumtibus et typis Caroli Tauchnitii, 1853), by Cornelius Nepos and C. H. Weise (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's Plutarch: (Duffield & Company;, 1909), by Plutarch, Tucker Brooke, and Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Plutarch's Lives (David Huntington, 1816), by Plutarch, Francis Wrangham, William Langhorne, and John Langhorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• C. Plinii Caecilii Secvndi Novocomensis Epistolarvm libri decem (Apud Seb. Gryphium Lugduni,, 1551), by Pliny the Younger, Sebastianus Gryphius, Julius Obsequens, and ca. 69-ca. 122 Suetonius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vitae uirorum illustrium, autoribus Aemilio Probo ... Georgio Cassandro ... C. Plinio Secundo ... C. Suetonio Tranquillo ... Fr. Petrarcha ... Lobardo Sirichio ... Fl. Philostrato ... Suida ... Accedente rerum & uerborum memorabilium indice copiosissimo .. (Per Henricum Petri, 1563) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Viri Romae. (Albert, Scott and Co., 1894), by C. F. L'Homond, Frederick Warren Sanford, and Milton Erastus Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plutarch's Lives: containing brief and accurate accounts of the lives of famous Greeks and Romans (The Penn publishing company, 1900), by Plutarch and Edward Sylvester Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vitae parallelae (B.G. Teubner, 1852), by Plutarch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Viri illustres urbis Romæ, a Romulo ad Augustum. (E.H. Butler & Co., 1866), by C. F. L'Homond and James Hardie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plutarch's lives of Alcibiades & Coriolanus, Aristides & Cato the Censor. (Cassell & Company, 1886), by Plutarch, William Langhorne, and John Langhorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uitae Plutarchi Cheronei : nouissime post Jodocu[m] Badiu[m] Asce[n]sium lo[n]ge diligentius repositae (Exactissima cura p[er] Melchiore[em] Sessam & Petru[m] de Rauanis socios, 1516), by Plutarch, Gerardus Vercellanus, Cornelius Nepos, and Josse Badius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia illust. Romanorum a Iano usq. ad captam a Gotthis urbem (Expensis Stephani Guillireti Lothoringi, 1510), by Thomas Ochsenbrunner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4), by Plutarch, trans. by George Long and Aubrey Stewart (Gutenberg ebook)
• Πλουτάρχου Βίοι Παράλληλοι - Τόμος 3: Αλκιβιάδης - Κοριολάνος - Τιμολέων - Αιμίλιος Παύλος - Πελοπίδας - Μάρκελλος (in Greek), by Plutarch, trans. by Alexandros Rizos Rankaves (Gutenberg ebook)
• Πλουτάρχου Βίοι Παράλληλοι - Τόμος 2: Σόλων - Ποπλικόλας - Θεμιστοκλής - Καμίλλος - Περικλής - Φάβιος Μάξιμος (in Greek), by Plutarch, trans. by Alexandros Rizos Rankaves (Gutenberg ebook)
• Πλουτάρχου Βίοι Παράλληλοι - Τόμος 1 : Θησεύς - Ρωμύλος - Λυκούργος - Νουμάς (in Greek), by Plutarch, trans. by Alexandros Rizos Rankaves (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lives. English. Dryden (London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1683), by Plutarch and John Dryden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Lives. English. Vol. IV. (London : printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judges Head in Chancery-lane, near FleetStreet, M.DC.XCIII. [1693]), by Plutarch (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Lives. English. Vol. V. (London : printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judge's-Head in Chancery-lane, near Fleet-street, 1693), by Plutarch and M. Burghers (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Lives. English. Vol. II. (London : printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judges-Head in Chancery-Lane, near Fleet-Street, 1688), by Plutarch (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Lives. English. Vol. III. (London : printed by R.E. for Jacob Tonson, at the Judges-Head in Chancery-Lane, near Fleet-street, 1693), by Plutarch and M. Burghers (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Lives of the Twelve Caesars; To Which Are Added, His Lives of the Grammarians, Rhetoricians, and Poets, by Suetonius, trans. by Alexander Thomson and Thomas Forester (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine, by Eusebius of Caesarea (HTML at Fordham)
• De Die Natale; Life of the Emperor Hadrian (title of first book should be "De Die Natali"; New York: Cambridge Encyclopedia Co., 1900), trans. by William Maude, contrib. by Censorinus and Aelius Spartianus
  • HTML with commentary and corrected typos at elfinspell.com
  • page images at HathiTrust
• C. Suetonii Tranquilli De vita Caesarum liber VIII Divus Vespasianus; Suetonius's Life of Vespasian with notes and parallel passages (Philadelphia, Pa., 1924), by Suetonius and Harriet Margretta Thompson Skerrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of twelve Caesars (D. Nutt, 1899), by Suetonius, Philemon Holland, and Charles Whibley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gai Svetoni Tranqvilli De vita Caesarvm libri dvo (H. Holt, 1889), by Suetonius and Harry Thurston Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dionis Cassii Nicaei Romanae historiae libri (tot enim hodie extant) XXV, nimirum à XXXVI ad LXI : quibus exponuntur res gestae à bello Cretico us[que] ad mortem Claudij Caesaris, quae est historia annorum circiter CXX (apud Ioannem Oporinum, 1558), by Dión Casio, Johann Oporinus, Wilhelm Xylander, and Joannes Xiphilinus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quae supersunt omnia (Inaedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1904), by Suetonius, Karl Ludwig Roth, and Karl Ludwig Roth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historiae Avgvstae scriptores sex : Ael. Spartianvs, Vvlc. Gallicanvs, Ivl. Capitolinvs, Trebell. Pollio, Ael. Lampridvs, Flav. Vopiscvs (apvd Siegfrid. Lebrecht Crvsivm, 1774), by Josias Ludwig Ernst Püttmann and Johann Peter Schmid (page images at HathiTrust)
• A chronicle of all the noble emperours of the Romaines, : from Iulius Caesar, orderly to this moste victorious Emperour Maximilian, that now gouerneth, with the great warres of Iulius Caesar, & Pompeius Magnus: setting forth the great power, and deuine prouidence of almighty God, in preseruing the godly princes and common wealthes. (by Thomas Marshe, 1571), by Richard Rainolde (page images at HathiTrust)
• The scriptores historiae augustae (Harvard University Press ;, 1921), by Hermann Peter, Susan Helen Ballou, Ainsworth O'Brien-Moore, David Magie, and David Magie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• C. Suetoni Tranquilli quae supersunt omnia. (sumptibus et typis B. G. Teubneri, 1875), by ca. 69-ca. 122 Suetonius and Karl Ludwig Roth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caii Suetonii Tranquilli Opera (Parisiis : Excudunt Plon Fratres, 1845., 1845), by Suetonius and Etienne Gros (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia romana (Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios ;, 1733), by Sextus Aurelius Victor, Jacob van Poolsum, Johannes Arntzenius, Carlo Sigonio, and Petrus Nannius (page images at HathiTrust)
• De vitis imperatorvm et caesarvm romanorvm (Imprimabat Johannes Bringerus, 1615), by Octavius de Strada and Octavius de Strada (page images at HathiTrust)
• C. Suetonii Tranquilli Vita Tiberii [commentario instruxit] pars prior : specimen litterarium inaugurale quod annuente summo numine ... (E. Van der Vecht, 1906), by Suetonius and Jacobus Huddleston Slater (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nicolaus of Damascus' life of Augustus : Translated with a commentary, by of Damascus Nicolaus, trans. by Clayton Morris Hall (Gutenberg ebook)

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