9.

Biographical Writings
Manetti, Giannozzo

This collection brings together his famous biographies of Dante, Petrarch, and
Boccaccio, which helped establish the canon of Italian literature, as well as his
parallel lives of Socrates and Seneca, which remained the standard biographical
sources for those philosophers throughout the early modern period.

11. Invectives
Petrarca, Francesco

This new critical edition of the Invectives, intended to revive the eloquence of
Cicero, are directed against scholastic philosophy and medicine and the dominance
of French culture.

12. Commentaries, Volume 1: Books I-II

Pius II

14. Silvae Poliziano, Angelo

His �Silvae� are poetical introductions to his courses in literature at the
University of Florence, written in Latin hexameters.

15. Short Epics

Vegio, Maffeo
This volume includes Book XIII of Vergil�s Aeneid, the famous continuation of the
Roman epic, which was popular in the later Renaissance, printed many times and
translated into every major European language. It also contains three other epic
works.

29. Commentaries, Volume 2: Books III-IV

Pius II

30.Lives of the Popes, Volume 1: Antiquity

Platina, Bartolomeo
his most famous work, a biographical compendium of the Roman popes from St. Peter
down to his own time. The work critically synthesized a wide range of sources and
became the standard reference work on papal history for early modern Europe.

33.Writings on Church and Reform

Nicholas of Cusa

This volume makes most of Nicholas�s other writings on Church and reform available
in English for the first time.

39.
Christiad
Vida, Marco Girolamo

45.
Humanist Tragedies
These five tragedies�Ecerinis, Achilleis, Progne, Hyempsal, and Fernandus
Servatus�were nourished by a potent amalgam of classical, medieval, and pre-
humanist sources

46. Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, Volume 1: Books I�V

Boccaccio, Giovanni
The goal of Boccaccio�s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is to plunder ancient and
medieval literary sources to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman
mythology.
It contains a famous defense of the value of studying ancient pagan poetry in a
Christian world.

61.
The Battle of Lepanto
The Battle of Lepanto anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets who composed Latin
poetry in response to the news of the battle, the largest Mediterranean naval
encounter since antiquity.

68.
Apologetic Writings
Savonarola, Girolamo

69. The Greek Classics

Manutius, Aldus

72.My Secret Book

Petrarca, Francesco

78. Humanism and the Latin Classics

Manutius, Aldus
This volume presents Aldus�s prefaces to Latin classics and modern humanist
writers, translated into English.

Great books of the Western World- The GReat Ideas

p. 1-30

The Great Conversation

1-27
2-28

San Cirilo de Alejandria

-De adoratione in spirtu et veritate

San Gregorio Niseno

-In Cant., hom. 8
San Jeronimo, In Ephes.

San Roberto Belarmino

-De Translat. Imperii Romani

Suarez
-De legibus