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Title: Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Savage, Charles C., 1820-1907
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: Buffalo, Phinney & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d in the vain hope of moderating his love, he settled at Vaucluse, a romanticspot, where he wrote some of his finest works. His literary reputation attract-ed the regard of princes ; he was invited to Paris, to Naples, and to Rome ;and received the laureate crown in the latter city 1341 ; the title and prerog-atives of poet-laureate were revived, after a lapse of thirteen hundred years.In 1348 his feelings were deeply wounded by the death of Laura, who appearsto have fallen a sacrifice to the pestilence, then raging throughout Europe, andwhich also deprived him of his great patron, Cardinal Colonna. He survivedthe idol of his soul, however, nearly thirty years ; during all which period hewas admired and honored by his countrymen. Petrarch was undoubtedly oneof the most memorable characters of his age and nation ; and although hiscountrymen may have estimated his genius at too high a rate, he merits the ap-plause and admiration of posterity. He died near Padua, in 1374. JOHN WICKLIFFE.
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JOHN WICKLIFFE. JOHN WICKLIFFE, the morning-star of the Reformation, and the noble pioneerof Luther, was born at Wickliffe, in Yorkshire, England, about 1324. Theyear of his birth is not recorded, nor is much known respecting his parentage.He was educated at Queens college, and afterward1 at Merton, and in 1361raised to the mastership of Baliol college. In 13G5 he was made, by thescholars, head of Canterbury hall, just founded at Oxford by Archbishop Islip, buthis elevation was opposed by the monks, and Langham the next primate, andthe pope to whom the dispute was referred, displaced him and his secularsociates. Thus disgraced by violence he retired to his living at Lutterwiin Leicestershire, meditating revenge against the authors of his unjust priva-tion. In the works of Marsilius of Padua, and other bold writers, he foundample room to indulge his opposition, and well aware of the popularity of attack-ing a foreign power, which overawed the throne, and submitted the industry-arid the

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