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No account is more critical to our understanding of Joan of Arc than the contemporary record of her 1431 trial. The record,…

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Babrius is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on those called…

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An anthology of Latin poetry produced during a period of four and a half centuries.…

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The poetry of Horace (born 65 bc) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural…

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The comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205'-184 BC, are the earliest Latin…

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Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a renowned and successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. In The Orator''s…

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The classical and Christian worlds meet in Boethius (ca. AD 480'-524), the last writer of purely literary Latin from…

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Nigel of Canterbury''s Miracles of the Virgin, the oldest Latin poem about miracles performed by Mary, features lively tales…

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In the tenth century, an anonymous scholar crafted an Old English version of Saint Augustine''s Soliloquia, which explores…

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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313'-1375) devoted his last decades to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous…

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Aldus Manutius (c. 1451'-1515) was the most important scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. His Aldine Press was…