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, but is now recognized as anonymous. Its author may be known as "Pseudo-Walter Burley". There are over 150

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translations, one by and another by Anton Sorg, had appeared by 1490. ''De vita et moribus philosophorum'' was used as a source by Giovanni Colonna in his ''De viris illustribus'' begun in 1329.Surdich.

Editions

*Stigall, John Oliver H., ed. ''The 'De vita et moribus philosophorum' of Walter Burley: An Edition with Introduction''. PhD diss. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1956. *Crosas López, Francisco, ed. ''Vida y costumbres de los viejos filósofos : la traducción castellana cuatrocentista del De vita et moribus philosophorum atribuido a Walter Burley''. Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, 2002.

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