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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Confessions Confessions Augustine of Hippo Garry Wills’s complete translation of Saint Augustine’s spiritual masterpiece—available now for the first time Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religio… OL137872W
Historia Alexandri Magni Historia Alexandri Magni Quintus Curtius Rufus The Roman historian's account of the conquests of Alexander the Great is one of the primary sources of our knowledge of the Macedonian conquest and its leader. OL145025W
Antologia dei primi secoli della letteratura italiana Antologia dei primi secoli della letteratura italiana Gerolamo Lazzeri It is the first (and only) book written by Gerolamo Lazzeri on Italian literature. It was part of a larger project, stopped by the author's death, in 1941. Lazzeri wrote other books on the Italian, B… OL211854W
Writing the barbarian past Writing the barbarian past Shami Ghosh "Writing the Barbarian Past examines the presentation of the non-Roman, pre-Christian past in Latin and vernacular historical narratives composed between c. 550 and c. 1000: the Gothic histories of J… OL22320840W
Die Stiftung von Autorschaft in der neulateinischen Literatur (ca. 1350- ca. 1650) Die Stiftung von Autorschaft in der neulateinischen Literatur (ca. 1350- ca. 1650) K. A. E. Enenkel This book throws new light on the question of authorship in the Latin literature of the later medieval and in the early modern periods. It shows that authorship was not something to be automatically … OL23191599W
El conde Lucanor El conde Lucanor Don Juan Manuel En *El conde Lucanor* alcanzan culminación y síntesis las tradiciones cuentísticas del mundo oriental y de los predicadores cristianos. La popularidad obtenida por los exempla incluidos en la primera… OL249192W
Chrestomatia staropolska Chrestomatia staropolska Wiesław Wydra 431 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., facsims. ; 30 cm. OL4029950W
Metamorphoses Metamorphoses Apuleius,Werner Krenkel To the Right Honourable and Mighty Lord, THOMAS EARLE OF SUSSEX, Viscount Fitzwalter, Lord of Egremont and of Burnell, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, Iustice of the forrests and Chases… OL658250W
Libros de Marco Tvlio Ciceron Libros de Marco Tvlio Ciceron Cicero Libros de Marco Tulio Ciceron en que tracta de los officios, de la amicicia, y de la senectud. traduzidos por Iuan Iaraua En Enveres (= Antwerp) en casa de Iuan Steelsio 1546 OL67472W
Moralia Moralia Plutarch The Moralia of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Roman and Greek life, but often are also… OL723491W
Humanism and Secularization Humanism and Secularization Riccardo Fubini "The Renaissance movement known as humanism eventually spread from Italy through all of western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being felt and debated. Central to the… OL780033W
La Dorotea La Dorotea Lope de Vega *La Dorotea,* publicada en 1632, es una narración en prosa enteramente dialogada de Lope de Vega (1562-1635). El crítico José Manuel Blecua la valoró como «una de las grandes creaciones de la prosa e… OL914867W
Metamorphoses Metamorphoses Ovid Bringing together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends, Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant Metamorphoses describes a magical world in which men and women are transformed - often by lov… OL97777W