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William Roper

English biographer

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approach to biography

  • Giorgio Vasari
    In biography: Renaissance

    …More’s History of Richard III, William Roper’s Mirrour of Vertue in Worldly Greatness; or, The life of Syr Thomas More, and George Cavendish’s Life of Cardinal Wolsey. The History of Richard III (written about 1513 in both an English and a Latin version) unfortunately remains unfinished; and it cannot meet…

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