Giorgio Vasari's Lives From the Artists (1550) was the landmark biography focusing on secular life. Vasari produced superstars of his subjects, because the Lives turned an early "bestseller". Their topics have been commonly limited on the church fathers, martyrs, popes, and saints. Their works have been meant for being inspirational https://grescotires.com/an-unbiased-view-of-zz-top-biography-2/