Excerpt from The Letters of Martin Luther. His love for the Scriptures lightened the task. Referring specially to the Psalms, which occupied him so continuously ...
Continue Reading →In sermons and pamphlets, Luther and his colleagues claimed that salvation came by faith alone and not by works. Although the better-known pamphlets of 1520-To ...
Continue Reading →The Civil War (Bellum Civile), is a Roman epic poem by the poet Lucan, telling of the civil war between Julius Caesar and the forces ...
Continue Reading →On the Sublime is given a 1st-century-CE date because it was a response to a work of that period by Caecilius of Calacte, a Sicilian ...
Continue Reading →The Harmony of the World, by Johannes Kepler, is not only a seminal work in the history of astronomy but a case study in the ...
Continue Reading →In the history of Renaissance thought, Guicciardini’s Ricordi occupy a place of singular importance. Few works of the sixteenth century allow us so penetrating an ...
Continue Reading →Erasmus’ Adagia has been called ‘one of the world’s biggest bedside books,’ and certainly the more than 4000 proverbs and maxims gathered and commented on ...
Continue Reading →Probably dating from the first century AD, De Eloutione is an ancient treatise on good writing practices that draws on works by Aristotle and Theophrastus. ...
Continue Reading →Of Being and the Unity (Latin: De ente et uno), has explanations of several passages in Moses, Plato and Aristotle. It is an attempted reconciliation ...
Continue Reading →Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form.In 1572, Montaigne ...
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