Ealdred encouraged Folcard, a monk of Canterbury, to write the Life Saint John of Beverley.

A Life of Saint Ælfheah in prose and verse was written by a Canterbury monk named Osbern, at Lanfranc's request.

According to the Vita Ansgarii (" Life of Ansgar "), when the little boy learned in a vision that his mother was in the company of Saint Mary, his careless attitude toward spiritual matters changed to seriousness (" Life of Ansgar ", 1 ).

Most of what is known about Saint Anthony comes from the Life of Anthony.

His biography was written by Saint Athanasius and titled Life of Saint Anthony the Great.

His other historical works included lives of the abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow, as well as verse and prose lives of Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, an adaptation of Paulinus of Nola's Life of St Felix, and a translation of the Greek Passion of St Anastasius.

* CELT: On the Life of Saint Columba ( Betha Choluim Chille ) ( tr.

* The Life of Our Holy Father Saint Herman of Alaska

* Icon of Saint Herman of Alaska with Scenes from his Life

* The Life and Miracles of St. Isidore of Seville, Saint and Doctor of the Catholic Church

According to the Life of Saint Gildas, written in the early 12th century by Caradoc of Llancarfan, Arthur is said to have killed Gildas ' brother Hueil and to have rescued his wife Gwenhwyfar from Glastonbury.

In the Life of Saint Cadoc, written around 1100 or a little before by Lifris of Llancarfan, the saint gives protection to a man who killed three of Arthur's soldiers, and Arthur demands a herd of cattle as wergeld for his men.

Much of what is known of Louis's life comes from Jean de Joinville's famous Life of Saint Louis.

A life of Pope Gregory the Great has also been attributed to him, and he is credited with a Latin translation of the Greek Life of Saint Mary the Egyptian.

The 14th century ' Life of Saint Piran ', probably written at Exeter Cathedral, is a complete copy of an earlier Irish life of Saint Ciarán of Saighir, with different parentage and a different ending that takes into account Piran's works in Cornwall, and especially details of his death and the movements of his Cornish shrine ; thus " excising the passages which speak of his burial at Saighir " ( Doble ).

Adomnán in his Life of Saint Columba offers a longer account, which Abbot Ségéne had heard from Oswald himself.

* Adomnán, Life of Saint Columba translated and edited Richard Sharpe.

* Tudor, Victoria, " Reginald's Life of St Oswald ", in C. Stancliffe and E. Cambridge ( eds ), Oswald: Northumbrian King to European Saint ( 1995, 1996 ).

* Vita Sancti Niniani (" Life of Saint Ninian ")

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Ailred claimed that much of his information for his Life of S. Ninian was taken from a source written in a " barbarous language ", but there is no knowledge of it other than his own claim.

It is also noted that Ailred wrote his Life of S. Ninian at a time when he was living under Scottish rule and had close connections both to Fergus of Galloway ( who would resurrect the Bishopric of Galloway ), and to the Scottish royal family, all of whom would have been pleased to have a manuscript with such a glowing description of a Galwegian and Scottish saint.

In addition, Skene attributes the " traditional " date of Ninian's death ( 16 September 432 ) ultimately to Ussher's Life of Ninian, noting that the date is " without authority ".

* Vita S. Niniani (" The Life of Saint Ninian "), 1154 – 60.

There are also autobiographical sections in Alcuin's poem on York and in the Vita Alcuini, a Life written for him at Ferrières in the 820s, possibly based in part on the memories of Sigwulf, one of Alcuin's pupils.

One of the first great autobiographies of the Renaissance is that of the sculptor and goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini ( 1500 – 1571 ), written between 1556 and 1558, and entitled by him simply Vita ( Italian: Life ).

Arguably his most read work is his biography of Anthony the Great entitled Vita Antonii, or Life of Antony.

:* Vita Constantini ( Life of Constantine ).

The most famous of Einhard's works is his biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni, " The Life of Charlemagne " ( c. 817 – 836 ), which provides much direct information about Charlemagne's life and character, written sometime between 817 and 830.

* Vita Karoli Magni -- Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, Latin text at The Latin Library

Eusebius ' Life of Constantine ( Vita Constantini ) is a eulogy or panegyric, and therefore its style and selection of facts are affected by its purpose, rendering it inadequate as a continuation of the Church History.

:* Vita Constantini ( The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine ) ca.

Dedicatory plaque to Fellini on Via Veneto, Rome: To Federico Fellini, who made Via Veneto the stage for the " La Dolce Vita | Sweet Life "-SPQR-January 20, 1995

Many of the earlier legendary elements are interwoven in the 13th-century Vita Amlethi (" The Life of Amleth ") by Saxo Grammaticus, part of Gesta Danorum.

*( c. 99 ) The Life of Flavius Josephus, or Autobiography of Flavius Josephus ( abbreviated Life or Vita )

There is in existence an ancient Vita, Life of the saint by a monk named Daniel of Raithu monastery.

Kirlian Photographer Mark D. Roberts, who has worked with Kirlian imagery for over 40 years, published a portfolio of plant images entitled " Vita occulta plantarum " or " The Secret Life of Plants ", first exhibited in 2012 at the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis.

* Apart from his treatises on the arts, Alberti also wrote: Philodoxus (" Lover of Glory ", 1424 ), De commodis litterarum atque incommodis (" On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Literary Studies ", 1429 ), Intercoenales (" Table Talk ", c. 1429 ), Della famiglia (" On the Family ", begun 1432 ) Vita S. Potiti (" Life of St. Potitus ", 1433 ), De iure ( On Law, 1437 ), Theogenius (" The Origin of the Gods ", c. 1440 ), Profugorium ab aerumna (" Refuge from Mental Anguish ",), Momus ( 1450 ) and De Iciarchia (" On the Prince ", 1468 ). These and other works were translated and printed in Venice by the humanist Cosimo Bartoli in 1586.

Morgan first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini ( The Life of Merlin ) in the 12th century.

* The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca ( 1520 ) — Vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca, a short biography.

Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

Cyril was reputedly the youngest of seven brothers ; he was born Constantine, but took the name Cyril upon becoming a monk shortly before his death, according to the " Vita Cyrilli " (" The Life of Cyril ").

The second dialogue is a large appendix to the Life of Martin, and really supplies more information of his life as bishop and of his views than the work which bears the title Vita S. Martini.

* Constantius of Lyon begins his research for his book Vita sancta Germani (" on the Life of Germanus ").