Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling cons...

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

The Roman Breviary

by Catholic Church, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart 3rd Marquess of Bute

Fables

by Aesop, Joseph Jacobs

ONE hot, sultry day, a Wolf and a Lamb happened to come, just at the same time, to quench their thirst in the stream of ...

Institutio Christianae religionis

by Jean Calvin

From those matters so far discussed, we clearly see how destitute and devoid of all good things man is, and how he lacks...

Allan Quatermain

by H. Rider Haggard

I have just buried my boy, my poor handsome boy of whom I was so proud, and my heart is broken.

On the sublime

by Longinus

Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

by Saint Bede the Venerable

Description of Greece

by Pausanias, Jean Pouilloux

Like Pausanias gazing from the sea at the promontory of Sounion (I.I.I), let us for a moment entertain a prospect simult...

Tristia

by Ovid

Æsop's fables

by Aesop

Catena aurea

by Thomas Aquinas, John Henry Newman

America

by Theodor de Bry

Quaestiones disputatae de veritate

by Thomas Aquinas

Elements

by Euclid

Comedies

by Publius Terentius Afer

Decretum

by Gratian

My Sunday missal

by Catholic Church

Cosmographia

by Peter Apian