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The Muse of History
primary sources, texts, diaries, journals, memoirs, belles-lettres,
journalism, editorials, and commentaries, biographies and
autobiographies :
Primary Source Extracts
(very short morsels of primary source accounts arranged by century)
An Italian Portrait Gallery
by Paolo Giovio
translated by F. A. Gragg
Froissart's Chronicles, Volume I
translated by Thomas Johnes
Selections from Villani's Chronicle of Italy
translated by Rose Selfe
History Of Chivalry and The Crusades
By G. P. R. James, Esq.
Peter the Cruel
by Edward Storer
Illustrations of Chaucer's England
edited by Dorothy Hughes, M.A.
The Rise of Universities
by
Charles Homer Haskins:
I. The Earliest Universities
II. The Mediaeval Professor
III. The Mediaeval Student
The Annals of Roger de Hoveden, Volume I
translated by Henry T. Riley
Henry of Huntingdon's Letter to Walter
in 1135 A. D.,
translated by Thomas Forester
Some Lies and Errors of History
by
Rev. Reuben Parsons, D. D.:
(Read with caution !!! )
Title and Preface
Pope Alexander VI.
The Alleged Ante-Mortem Funeral of Charles V.
Bruno and Campanella (and Appendix)
St. Cyril and the Murder of Hypatia
The Divorce of Napoleon and Josephine
Fénelon and Voltaire
Galileo
The Grey Cardinal
"I am the State!" — Did Louis XVI. Ever Say So?
The Truth About the Inquisition
Louis XI.; The Travestied and the Real
Richelieu as an Ecclesiastic
Louis XIII. as He Was
The Nature of Tasso's Imprisonment
Wicked Venice
The Last Word on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day
The Middle Age Not a Starless NIght
The Man With The Iron Mask
The Holy Wars: Their Object and Results
The "Orthodox" Russian, and the Schismatic Greek Churches
Columbus and His Alleged Crimes
Appendix (to Bruno and Campanella)
From An Introduction to the History of History
by
James T. Shotwell
Chapter I: Definition and Scope of History
Chapter II: Prehistory; Myth and Legend
Chapter III: Books and Writing
Chapter IV:The Measuring of Time
Chapter V: Egyptian Annals
Chapter VI: Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian Records
Chapter VII: The Old Testament as History
Chapter VIII: The Pentateuch
Chapter IX: The Remaining Historical Books of the Old Testament
Chapter X: The Formation of the Canon
Chapter XI: Non-Biblical Literature; Josephus
Chapter XII: From Homer to Herodotus
Chapter XIII: Herodotus
Chapter XIV: Thucydides
From Legends of the Bastille
By Frantz Franck-Brentano
Authorised Translation by George Maidment:
Chapter IV. The Man with the Iron Mask
From A Source Book of Mediæval History
edited by Frederic Austin Ogg:
Chapter I --The Early Germans
A Sketch by Cæsar
A Description by Tacitus
Chapter II -- The Visigothic Invasion
The Visigoths Cross the Danube by Ammianus Marcellinus
The Battle of Adrianople by Ammianus Marcellinus
Chapter XXVI. -- The Beginnings of the Italian Renaissance
Dante's Defense of Italian as a Literary Language
from Il Convito [The Banquet]
Dante's Conception of the Imperial Power
from De Monarchia [On Monarchy]
Petrarch's Love of the Classics
Petrarch's Letter to Posterity
The Works of Aretino,
translated into English from the original Italian, with a critical and
biographical essay by Samuel Putnam, Illustrations by the
Marquis de Bayros:
VOLUME I
Biographical and Critical Essay
Dialogue 1, The Novice's Feast.
Dialogue 2, The Life of Married Woman.
Dialogue 3, The Life of Courtezans.
Dialogue 4, The Art of the Courtezan.
Dialogue 5, The Betrayals of Men.
Dialogue 6, The Art of the Procuress.
&
La Cortegiana [The Courtezan]
Volume II
Biography: de Sanctis
Translator's Note
The Letters
The Sonnets
Appendix
(with kind permission from Dr. Hilary Putnam)
Poggio Bracciolini:
The Life of Poggio Bracciolini,
by
William Shepherd
The Facetiae of Poggio and Other Medieval Story-tellers
translated by
Edward Storer
Facetia Erotica by Poggio Fiorentino
by
An Anonymous Translator
A Letter by Poggio to Leonard Aretino describing the death of Jerome of Prague,
for heresy
The New Life [La Vita Nuova]
by Dante Alighieri
translated by Charles Eliot Norton
Squibs
(general commentary, et al. by Elfinspell Editors)
#1 On Reading Literature in Translation and Excerpts
#2 The Feet of Clay Department: Longfellow
The Life of the Black Prince
by The Herald of John Chandos,
translated by
Mildred K. Pope and Eleanor C. Lodge
From Barbara Smythe's, "The Trobador Poets":
Guilhelm VII, Count of Poitou
(aka Guilhem IX. Duke of Aquitaine)
Bertran de Born
Two Anonyous Albas
Petrarch:
Canzones and Sonnets (Latin and English)
translated by Lorna de' Lucchi
Sonnet left by Petrarch in Laura's Tomb
translated by Lord Woodhouselee
Extracts from Letters, including Petrarch's Letter to Posterity
selected by Frederic Austin Ogg
Extract of Letter 25, from the Epistolae Variae
translated by Merrick Whitcomb
From Green's, "The Making of England":
A Description of Early England
The Report of the Truth Concerning the Last Sea-Fight of the Revenge by
Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight
With a new modernization of the text and a few notes by S. Rhoads
&
The Original Elizabethan text
&
Another account of the same by
Jan Huyghen de Linschoten
Paul Henztner's Travels in England,
translated by
Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford
Sir Robert Carey:
Biographical Note
&
On A Scottish Raider
&
On The Death of Queen Elizabeth
& The Spanish Armada
A History of Football in England
by
Montagu Shearman
Persian Forms and Fables
by
Sir John Malcolm
A Persian Governor
by
Arthur Arnold
Distinguishing Characteristics of
European Civilization
by
F. Guizot
Celebrated English Letter Writers
(Pope, Lamb, Cowper, Gray, Byron, Shelley, Walpole)
The History of Whist
from 'Cavendish on Whist'
by
Henry 'Cavendish' Jones
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From Notes and Queries:
A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.
January 7, 1871
Allegory in the Faerie Queen
by
Thomas Keightley
Letters by Nell Gwynne and Kitty Clive
Mons Vultur
by
Craufurd Tait Ramage
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The Fugitive King at Boscobel;
Adventures of the Merry Monarch
&
The Escape of Queen Mary from Lochleven Castle
by
Agnes Strickland
Plutarch's Letter to His Wife
on the Death of His Daughter
(first half)
Sallust: Orations and Letters
from the Histories
translated by J. C. Rolfe
Manners and Customs of the Egyptians
by
Charles Rollin (18th cent.)
Abelard
(1079-1142)
by
Thomas Davidson
including:
A Biographical Essay on Abelard,
A Letter from Heloise to Abelard,
Abelard's Reply to Heloise,
A Vesper Hymn by Abelard
additional traces of biographical material
(but rest is duplicate of above)
Heloise
&
Albertus Magnus
&
Duns Scotus and Occam
by
Henry Osborn Taylor, from "The Mediaeval Mind"
A Quote by John Milton on Books
John Fiske - Unpublished Orations:
Introduction & Prefatory Note
The Discovery of the Columbia River and the Whitman Controversy,
Oration Delivered in the Opera House at Astoria,
May 11, 1892 --
Afterwards Revised and Emended.
The Crispus Attucks Memorial
Columbus Memorial
Letters by Abigail Smith Adams
(Wife of President John Adams)
&
Diary Entry of John Adams
Henry Adams, U.S. Historian on:
The Battle of the "Constitution" and the "Guerriere", 1812
From "History of the United States"
Old Church Lore
by
William Andrews:
The Right of Sanctuary
The Romance of Trial
A Fight between the Mayor of Hull and Archbishop of York
Chapels on Bridges
Charter Horns
The Old English Sunday
The Easter Sepulchres
St. Paul's Cross
Cheapside Cross
The Biddenden Maids Charity
Plagues and Pestilences
A King Curing an Abbot of Indigestion
The Services and Customs of Royal Oak Day
Marrying in a White Sheet
Marrying under the Gallows
Kissing the Bride
Hot Ale at Weddings
Marrying Children
The Passing Bell
Concerning Coffins
The Curfew Bell
Curious Symbols of the Saints
Acrobats on Steeples
Homer
Appreciations and Analyses
To My Valet
by
Pierre de Ronsard
The Power of Song
by
Pierre de Ronsard
Homer and His Translators
by
Matthew Arnold
A MS Letter of Alexander Pope to the Earl of Halifax
Begging Him Not to ' Lose Homer '
On Translations of Homer
by
Lord Alfred Tennyson
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
by
John Keats
Translations of Homer
by
Butcher and Lang
Acadia: or a Month with the Blue Noses,
by Frederic S. Cozzens
The English Correspondence of Saint Boniface,
Translated and Edited by William Kylie
Cornelius Tacitus:
Treatise on The Situation, Manners, and Inhabitants of Germany
&
The Life of Cnæus Julius Agricola
The "Historia Brittonum," Commonly Attributed to
Nennius
from a MS. edited By Mark the Hermit;
with an English version by The Rev. W. Gunn
From Medieval Thought and Learning
by Reginald Lane Poole:
John The Scot
Appendix on John the Scot
The Silvae of Statius
translated by D. A. Slater
Source-Books of the Renaissance in Italy and Germany,
by Merrick Whitcomb
Combining 2 earlier texts:
A Literary Source-Book of the Italian Renaissance:
1. DANTE ALIGHIERI : Extract from De Monarchia;
Letter to the Princes and Peoples of Italy
2. FRANCESCO PETRARCHA : From Epistolæ variæ, No. 25
3. GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO : Introduction to the Decameron; Novels II and III
4. FRANCO SACCHETTI : Novels CXIV, CXV, CXXI, and CCXVI
5. POGGIO BRACCIOLINI : Extracts from the Facetiæ; Description of the
Death of Jerome of Prague
6. LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI : Extract from Il Governo della Famiglia
7. AENEAS SYLVIUS : Extract from De Liberorum Educatione
8. PLATINA : Extracts from the Lives of the Popes
9. VESPASIANO DA BASTICCI : Extracts from the Vite
10. LORENZO DE’ MEDICI : Letter to his son Giovanni
11. NICOLÒ MACHIAVELLI : Extracts from the Prince
12. BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE : Extracts from the Courtier
13. MATTEO BANDELLO : Novels VI, XIII, XLI
14. BENVENUTO CELLINI : Extracts from the Autobiography
A Literary Source-Book of the German Renaissance:
1. The Renaissance in Germany [by Whitcomb]
2. RUDOLF AGRICOLA : Letter to Barbirianus
3. JACOB WIMPHELING : Extracts from Isidoneus, Adolescentia and Agatharchia
4. JOHANN REUCHLIN : Letter to Ammerbach
5. SEBASTIAN BRANT : Extracts from the Narrenschiff
6. MAXIMILIAN I : Extracts from the Weisskunig
7. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS : Two Colloquies
8. ULRICH VON HUTTEN : Extract from Inspicientes
9. LETTERS OF OBSCURE MEN : (Seven Letters)
10. JOHANNES BUTZBACH : Extracts from Hodoporicon
11. THOMAS PLATTER : Extract from the Autobiography
The Autobiography of Johannes Butzbach,
A Wandering Scholar of the Fifteenth Century
Translated from the German by Robert Frances Seybolt and Paul Monroe
A Forgotten Wit
by William Mathews
History of Flagellation Among Different Nations
Anonymous 19th century work:
with primary source accounts taken largely from the rare text
by
John De Lolme (Abbe Jacobus Boileau)
Classical Geography
[Primer Series]
by H. F. Tozer
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:
Brief Biographical Note
Collected Jests
From "Manners Make the Man"
Absence of Mind, An Absent Man
Indispensable Accomplishments
Lying
Ear-Tickling
From The American Biography of 1833, anonymous:
Charles Lee, Major-General of the American Army
Henry Lee, Colonel in the American Army
The Pioneer Printer of New Orleans
by Douglas C. McMurtrie
On the Ictis of Diodorus Siculus
by the Rev. R. Wallace,
Read before the Literary and Philosophical Socity of Manchester, 1844
From Readings in Ancient History, Illustrative Extracts from the Sources,
by William Stearnes Davis:
Volume II: Rome and the West:
Chapter I. The First Roman Age
Helpful Links:
Bill Thayer's Web Site for American History,
Ancient Rome and Modern Italy
Tertullian.org
by Roger Pearse
on Tertullian and other early Church Fathers
medievalgenealogy.org.uk
by Chris Phillips on the Middle Ages
everyonewhosanyone.com
by Gerard Jones
with the truth about modern publishing, and
with his superb novel Ginny Good free (voted Best Autobiography in 2004 - Independent
Publisher Award)
bullyonline.org
by Tim Field
attalus.org
by Andrew Smith on Ancient Greece
Ben Simpson's Home Page on the Tudor Navy
A Bibliography of Symbolism
by Robin Raybould
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