Italian and Roman Literature and History

From Dante, Ariosto and Boccaccio to Casanova, Cellini, Maciavelli, and Tasso; from Julius Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil to Apuleius and Marcus Arelius; from Plutarch to Gibbon and Mommsen, this CD contains the full text of 191 books -- literature and history from and about Italy and Rome, sometimes in the original Italian and Latin, and sometimes in English translation. Major sections include: Context of the Contemporary World, Italian Literature, Latin/Roman Literature, General Histories of Ancient Rome, Italian History, and Historical Novels About Ancient Rome.

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Table of Contents:

Context of the contemporary world

• The CIA World Factbook.  With maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world  this is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.

• Country list
• Other files

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Italian Literature

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Collections and Criticism

• Modern Italian Poets by W.D. Howells
• Italian Stories
• A Great Day by Edmondo de Amicis
• College Friends by Edmondo de Amicis
• Pereat Rochus by Antonio Fogazzaro
• San Pantaleone by Gabriele d'Annunzio
• It Snows by Enrico Castelnuovo
• Stories from the Italian Poets with Lives of the Writers by Leigh Hunt
• volume 1
• volume 2

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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Il Convito (The Banquet) translated by Elizabeth Sayer

In Italian, with accents La Divina Commedia

In Italian without accents La Divina Commedia

In English translation:

translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Divine Comedy

translated by the Rev. H.F. Cary -- The Vision or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise

translated by Charles Eliot Norton

Hell

Purgatory

Paradise

In German translation

Die Goetliche Komoedie

with accents

without accents

about Dante

Dante: The Central Man of All the World by John Slattery, 1920

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Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)

• In Italian with accents Orlando Furioso
• In Italian without accents, Orlando Furioso
• In English translation:  Orlando Furioso

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Cletto Arrighi

• Nana a Milano, in Italian without accents

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Eugenio Barbarich

• La Campagna del 1796 nel Veneto

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Anton Giulio Barrili (1836-1908)

• La Notte del Commendatore

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Ambrogio Bazzero

• Ugo, in Italian without accents

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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1350)

• The Decameron, translated by J. M. Rigg
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• La Fiammetta, translated by James C. Brogan, 1907

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Michael Angelo Buonarroti (1475-1567)

• The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Bunarroti and Tommaso Campanella, translated by John Symonds

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Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639)

• The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Bunarroti and Tommaso Campanella, translated by John Symonds

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Cesare Cantu (1804-1895)

• Il Sacro Macello di Valtellina
• in Italian with accents
• in Italian without accents

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Luigi Capuana

• Cardello
• Il Benefattore

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Jacques Casanova de Seingault (1725-1798)

• Memoirs, the unabridged London edition of 1894, translated to English by Arthur Machen, to which has been added the chapters discovered by Arthur Symons; originally written in French, although the author was Italian
• Volume 1 -- Venetian Years
• Volume 1a -- Childhood
• Volume 1b -- A Cleric in Naples
• Volume 1c -- Military Career
• Volume 1d -- Return to Venice
• Volume 1e -- Milan and Mantua
• Volume 2 -- To Paris and Prison
• Volume 2a -- Paris
• Volume 2b -- Venice
• Volume 2c -- Convent Affairs
• Volume 2d -- The False Nun
• Volume 2e -- Under the Leads
• Volume 3 -- The Eternal Quest
• Volume 3a -- Paris and Holland
• Volume 3b -- Return to Paris
• Volume 3c -- Holland and Germany
• Volume 3d -- Switzerland
• Volume 3e -- With Voltaire
• Volume 4 -- Adventures in the South
• Volume 4a -- Depart Switzerland
• Volume 4b -- Return to Italy
• Volume 4c -- Return to Naples
• Volume 4d -- Back Again to Paris
• Volume 4e -- Milan
• Volume 5 -- In London and Moscow
• Volume 5a -- South of France
• Volume 5b -- To London
• Volume 5c -- The English
• Volume 5d -- London to Berlin
• Volume 5e -- Russia and Poland
• Volume 6 -- Spanish Passions
• Volume 6a -- Spain
• Volume 6b -- Expelled from Spain
• Volume 6c -- Rome
• Volume 6d -- Florence to Trieste
• Volume 6e -- Old Age and Death
• about Casanova
• Arthur Schnitzler -- Casanova's Homecoming

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Baldessar Castilio

• The Book of the Courtier, translated by Thomas Hoby, 1561

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Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)

• Autobiography

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C. Collodi

• Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet

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Ferdinando Fontana (1850-1919)

• Poesie e Novelle in Versi, 1877, in Italian without accents

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A. Ghislanzoni

• In Chiave de Baritono (Storiella a allegra) (storia de Milano dal 836 al 1848)

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Emilio de Marchi

• Vecchi Storie, without accents

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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

• The Art of War
• Description of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino in Murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di Gravia Orsini, translated to English by W.K. Marriott (short)
• History of Florence, in English
• The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca, translated to English by W.K. Marriott (short)
• The Prince, translated to English by W.K. Marriott

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Memini

• Mia, Romanzo Milano, 1884

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Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)

• L'Endimione

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Michaelangelo

• Gedichte und Briefe, translated to German by R.A. Guardini

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Giuseppe Rovani (1818-1874)

• I Francesi e gli Sforzeschi, 1877
• Valenzia Candiano, 1844

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Gerolamo Rovetta

• Il Tenente dei Lancieri, 1916

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Ettore Socci

• Da Firenze a Digione (in Italian)

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Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)

• Jerusalem Delivered translated to English by Edward Fairfax

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

• The Notebooks, in English, translated by Jean Paul Richter
• with accents
• without accents
• about Leonardo da Vinci
• Leonardo da Vinci by Maurice Brockwell

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Luciano Zuccoli (1868-1929)

• Il Designata, 1920
• Roberta, 1919

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Latin/Roman Language, Literature, and History

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General

• A Handbook for Latin Clubs by Susan Paxson, 1916
• A History of Roman Literature by Charles Cruttwell
• Latin Literature by J.W. MacKail

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Lucius Apuleius

• The Golden Ass, translated to English by William Adlington
• Cupid and Psyche in Latin

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Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor

• Meditations, in English (originally written in Greek, although the author was Roman)
• Thoughts (same book, different translation, this one by Long)
• Thoughts (a third translation)

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Ausonius

• Mosella, in Latin

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Catullus

• Poems, in Latin
• Songs to Youth (short), in Latin

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Julius Caesar

• The Gallic War, in Latin (only books 1-5 are currently available)
• Book 1
• Book 2
• Book 3
• Book 4
• Rice Holmes' commentary on The Gallic War, in English
• Preface
• On Book 1
• On Book 2
• On Book 3
• Geographical Index
• Appendix
• Julius Caesar
• Commentaries (The War in Gaul and the Civil War), translated by W.A. MacDevitt
• James Froude
• Caesar: a Sketch

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Cicero

• Academica, in Latin, edited by James Reid
• Cato Maior de Senectute, in Latin, edited by James Reid
• Cicero (biography) by REv. W. Lucas Collins
• Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, in English, translated by C.D. Yonge
• De Amicitia and Scipio's Dream, in English
• Four speeches against Cataline, in Latin
• Miscellaneous Speeches, in Latin
• In C. Verrem
• Pro A. Licinio Archia Poeta
• Pro Q. Ligario
• Pro M. Marcello
• Essays on Friendship and Old Age, translated to English by E. S. Shuckburgh
• Letters, translated to English by E.S. Shuckburgh
• The Orations of Cicero, translated by C.D. Yonge, volume 4, 1903
• The Life of Cicero by Anthony Trollope, volume 1 of 2
• Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators
• Roman Life in the Days of Cicero by Alfred Church

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Dio

• Dio's Rome, translated by Herbert Foster
• volume 3, extant books 45-51, 44 BC to 29 BC
• volume 4, extant books 52-60, 29 BC to 54 AD
• volume 5, extant books, 61-76, 54 to 211 AD

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Sextus Julius Frontin

• Les Quatre Livres des Strategemes, translated from Latin to French by Ch. Bailly

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Horace

• In Latin and English
• De Arte Poetica (The Art of Poetry)
• In Latin
• Epodes (short)
• Songs, Book 1 (short)
• In English
• Odes and Carmen Saeculare, in English
• Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry, in English
• Works, translated by C. Smart
• about Horace
• Horace and His Inflluence by Grant Showerman

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Livy

• Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City), in Latin
• Editor's Preface
• Preface
• Books 1
• History of Rome in English
• Books 1 to 3
• Books 9 to 26
• Books 27 to 36
• Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolo Machiavelli

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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

• Pharsalia, in English

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Titus Lucretius Carus

• Of the Nature of Things, translated to English by William Emery Leonard

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Thomas Macaulay, translator to English

• Lays of Ancient Rome

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Nepos

• Liber de Excellentibus Ducibus (The Book of Excellent Leaders), in Latin
• Preface
• Life of Agesilaus
• Life of Aristides
• Life of Cimon
• Life of Dion
• Life of Epaminondas
• Life of Hamilcar
• Life of Hannibal
• Life of Lysander
• Life of Miltiades
• Life of Pausanias
• Life of Themistocles

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Ovid

• Fasti, in English
• Heroides, in Latin

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Petronius Arbiter

• Satyricon, translated by W.C. Firebaugh

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Plautus

• Captivi and The Mostellaria, in English
• Plays, volume 1, translated by Paul Nixon
• Amphitryon
• The Comedy of Asses
• The Pot of Gold
• The Two Bacchises
• The Captives

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Pliny the Younger

• Letters, in English

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Prudentius

• The Hymns of Prudentius, translated by R. Martin Pope
• Poems, in Latin
• Poem 1
• Poem 2
• Poem 3
• Poem 4
• Poem 5
• Poem 6
• Poem 7
• Poem 8
• Poem 9
• Poem 10
• Poem 11
• Poem 12
• Poem 13
• Poem 14

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Sallust

• The Cataline Conspiracy (in Latin)
• De Bello Catilinario et Jugurthino (in Latin)
• The Jugurthine War
• The Conspiracy of Catline and the Jugurthine War (in English)

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L. Annaeus Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

• Apocolocyntosis, translated by W.H.D. Rouse
• On Benefits, translated to English by Aubrey Stewart

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Suetonius

• Lives of the 12 Caesars and Lives of Grammarians, Rhetoricians, and Poets

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Tacitus

• Germany and Agricola, Oxford translation
• Germania et Agricola, in Latin, edited by W.S. Tiler
• The Histories, volumes 1 and 2, translated by W. Hammilton Frye
• The Reign of Tiberius (out of the first six Annals)
• about Tacitus
• Tacitus and Bracciolini: the Annals Forged in the Fifteenth Century, 1878, by John Wilson Ross (1818-1887)

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Tibullus

• The Elegies of Tibullus, translated by Theodore Williams, 1908
• Songs, in Latin
• Book 1
• Book 2

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Varro

• Libris Grammaticis de Terenti Varronis (in Latin)

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Virgil (70-19 BC)

• Aeneid
• in English
• in Latin
• Eclogues
• in English
• in Latin
• Georgics
• in English
• in Latin
• about Virgil
Vergil, a Biography by Tenney Frank

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Histories of Ancient Rome, by non-Roman authors

• On the Escavations of the Roman Baths at Bath
• A.H. Beesley
• The Gracchi, Marius, and Sulla, 1921
• Rev. Alfred Church
• Roman Life in the Days of Cicero
• A.H.J. Greenridge
• A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
• volume 1 133-104 BC [including Gracchi, Marius, and Sula]
• Charles Cruttwell
• A History of Roman Literature
• Thomas de Quincey
• The Caesars
• Edward Gibbon
• Fall of the Roman Empire
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6

• Guglielmo Fenero
• Characters and Events of Roman History form Caesar to Nero
• The Women of the Caesars
• Arthur Gilman
• The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
• Oliver Goldsmith
• Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome, 1851
• A. Haverfield
• The Romanization of Roman Britain
• Charles Kingsley
• The Roman and The Teuton
• Frances Lord
• Roman Pronunciation of Latin
• John Lord
• The Old Roman World
• Hugh Macmillan
• Roman Mosaics, 1888
• Ralph Magoffin
• Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste, 1908
• Theodor Mommsen
• History of Rome translated by William Purdie Dickson
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Roemische Geschichte (History of Rome, in German)
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 8 (6-7 not yet available)
• Robert Pennel
• Ancient Rome from the Earliest Times Down to 476 AD

• Plutarch
• Essays and Miscellanies
• Lives, translated by A.H. Clough, includes 50 biographies, 23 Greek, 23 Roman, 2 others; originally published in 5 volumes
• Charlotte Younge
• Young Folks' History of Rome, 1880

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Italian History (including Travel and Art History)

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• Autobiography of Benevenuto Cellini
• Cavour by The Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaesco
• Ceremonies of the Holy Week at Rome by Monsignor Baggs, 1854
• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
• Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa by Edward Hutton, 1907
• Giordano Bruno by Walter Pater (short)
• Knights of the Arts: Stories of the Italian Painters by Amy Steedman
• The Borgias by Alexandre Dumas (from Celebrated Crimes)
• Giorgione by Herbert Cook, 1904
• Histoire des Plus Celebres Amateurs Italien et de Leur Relations Avec les Artistes by J-G. Dumesnil, volume 4, in French
• Italian Journeys by W.D. Howells
• The Later Wok of Titian by Claude Phillips, 1898
• The Liberation of Italy 1815-1870 by Countess Evelyn Cesaresco
• Memorie del Presbiterio by Emilio Praga
• Niccolo Machiavelli
• Description of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino when Murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di Gravina Orsini (short)
• The History of Florence
• Life of Castruccio Castracani of Luccai (short)
• The Prince
• The Discourses
• Quatre Mois de l'Expedition de Garibaldi by H. Durand-Brager
• Ravenna: a Study by Edward Hutton
• The Renaissance in Italy: the Age of the Depots by John Symonds
• The Renaissance in Italy, The Catholic Reaction, volumes 1 and 2 by John Symonds
• Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece by John Symonds
• first series
• second series
• The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin
• A Summary History of the Palazzo Dandolo in Venice, 1896
• Tragedies of the Medici by Edgcumbe Staley
• The Travels of Marco Polo (the complete Yule-Cordier Editioni), 1920
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Val d'Arno by John Ruskin

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Historical Novels about Ancient Rome and Italy

• Irving Bacheller
• Vergilius, a tale of the coming of Christ
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• The Last Days of Pompeii
• Rienzi, The Last of the Roman Tribunes
• Wilkie Collins
• Antonina or the Fall of Rome
• Frances Elliot
• The Italians
• Charles Kingsley
• Hypatia
• Walter Pater
• Marius the Epicurean
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Arthur Schnitzler
• Casanova's Homecoming
• Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Quo Vadis, a Narrative of the Time of Nero
• Lew Wallace
• Ben Hur
• William Ware
• Zenobia or the Fall of Palmyra

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