ABSTRACT
Renaissance thinkers frequently distinguished two forms of writing about thepast: one, which setteth down men’s doings and adventures at length, is called . . . history; the other, which declareth their natures, sayings, and manners, is properly named their lives. The one respect[s] more the things and the other the persons: the one is more common, and the other more private: the one concerneth more the things that are without the man, and the other the things that proceed from within: the one the events, the other the consultations.1
