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Ab urbe condita
by Titus Livius
At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.
Ben Hur
by Lew Wallace
The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a l...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
1. From* my grandfather Venus:* the lesson of noble character and even temper.
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...
Lives
by Plutarch
IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.
Leonardo
by Leonardo da Vinci, Kunster
If anyone fits the description 'Renaissance man' it is Leonardo da Vinci.
Quo Vadis? Powieść z czasów Nerona
by Henryk Sienkiewicz
IT WAS CLOSE to noon before Petronius came awake, feeling as drained and listless and detached as always.
El Aleph
by Jorge Luis Borges
Em Londres, no início do mês de junho de 1929, o antiquário Joseph Cartaphilus, de Esmirna, ofereceu à princesa de Lucin...
Pictures from Italy
by Charles Dickens
ON a fine Sunday morning in the Midsummer time and weather of eighteen hundred and forty-four, it was, my good friend, w...
De vita Caesarum
by Suetonius
I. The science of grammar [842] was in ancient times far from being in vogue at Rome; indeed, it was of little use in a ...
Rome sweet home
by Scott Hahn
Soy el mas joven de tres ninos nacidos a Molly Lou y Fred Hahn.
Il formaggio e i vermi
by Carlo Ginzburg, Anne C. Tedeschi
As frequently happens, this research, too, came about by chance.