sources

This is a list of the works quoted by Montaigne in the Essays. The list is still incomplete but new entries are added regularly. A * next to an author’s name means that authorship is attributed and uncertain.

• A
• Ammianus Marcellinus • History
• Amyot, Jacques • Vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romains
• Amyot, Jacques • Oeuvres morales et meslees de Plutarque
• Anacreon • Odes
• Ariosto • Orlando Furioso
• Augustine • City of God
• Augustine • On Order
• Ausonius • Epigrammata
• B
• Beza, Theodore • Juvenilia
• Boaistuau, Pierre • Histoires Prodigieuses
• Buchanan, George • Franciscanus et Fratres
• Buchanan, George • John the Baptist
• C
• Caesar • Civil War
• Caesar • Gallic War
• Calpurnius siculus • Bucolica
• Catullus • Poems
• Cicero • Academica
• Cicero • Letters to Friends
• Cicero • On Fate
• Cicero • Fragmenta
• Cicero • Lucullus
• Cicero • On Divination
• Cicero • On Duties
• Cicero • On Ends
• Cicero • On Friendship
• Cicero • On Old Age
• Cicero • On the Nature of the Gods
• Cicero • On the Orator
• Cicero • Pro Ligario
• Cicero • stoic Paradoxes
• Cicero • Timaeus
• Cicero • Tusculan Disputations
• Quintus Tullius Cicero • Handbook of Electioneering
• Claudian • Against Eutropius
• Claudian • Against Rufinus
• Claudian • Letters to Friends
• Claudian • Panegyric on the sixth Consulship of the Emperor Honorius
• Corinna • Testimonia
• Quintus Curtius Rufus • Histories of Alexander the Great
• D
• Dante • Inferno
• Dante • Purgatorio
• Diodorus siculus • Library of History
• Diogenes Laërtius • Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
• Du Bellay, Martin • Mémoires
• E
• Erasmus • Adagia
• Estienne, Henri • Apologie pour Hérodote
• G
• Goulart, simon • Histoire de Portugal
• Guicciardini, Francesco • History of Italy
• F
• Florus • Epitome of Roman History
• G
• Aulus Gellius • Attic Nights
• H
• Herodotus • Histories
• Homer • Iliad
• Homer • Odyssey
• Horace • Art of Poetry
• Horace • Epistles
• Horace • Epodes
• Horace • Hymn for a New Age
• Horace • Odes
• Horace • satires
• J
• Jerome • Epistulae
• Jerome • Against Jovinianus
• Juvenal • satires
• L
• La Boétie, Étienne de • Mesnagerie de Xénophon
• La Boétie, Étienne de • Vers François
• Lactantius • Divinae institutiones
• Lipsius, Justus • De Constantia Libri Duo
• Lipsius, Justus • saturnalium sermonum Libri Duo
• Lipsius, Justus • Politicorum sive Civilis Doctrinae Libri sex
• Livy • History of Rome
• Lucan • Civil War
• Lucretius • On the Nature of Things
• M
• Macrobius • saturnalia
• Manilius • Astronomica
• Marot, Clément • Epistres
• Martial • Epigrams
• Martial • On the spectacles
• Maximianus • Elegies
• Menander • Monostichoi
• Mexía, Pedro • silva de varia lección
• N
• Nepos • Atticus
• Nonius Marcellus • De Compendiosa Doctrina
• O
• Ovid • Amores
• Ovid • Ars Amatoria
• Ovid • Epistles
• Ovid • Ex Ponto
• Ovid • Fasti
• Ovid • Heroides
• Ovid • Metamorphoses
• Ovid • Remedia Amoris
• Ovid • Tristia
• P
• Paradin, Guillaume • Continuation de l'Histoire de nostre temps
• Persius • satires
• Petrarch • Il Canzoniere
• Petronius • Poems
• Petronius • satyricon
• Pibrac, Guy du Faur de • Les quatrains du seigneur de Pybrac
• Plato • Laws
• Plato • Republic
• Plato • Timaeus
• Plautus • Captives
• Plautus • Mostellaria
• Plautus • Pseudolus
• Plautus • Trinummus
• Pliny • Natural History
• Plutarch • Moralia - Against the stoics on Common Conceptions
• Plutarch • Moralia - Dinner of the seven Wise Men
• Plutarch • Moralia - On Love
• Plutarch • Moralia - sayings of spartans
• Plutarch • Parallel Lives - Aemilius Paulus
• Plutarch • Parallel Lives - Brutus
• Plutarch • Parallel Lives - Caesar
• Plutarch • Parallel Lives - Demetrius
• Plutarch • Parallel Lives - Lycurgus
• Plutarch • Parallel Lives - Lysander
• Plutarch • Parallel Lives - Timoleon
• Plutarch • sayings of Kings and Commanders
• Probus • In Vergilii Bucolica et Georgica Commentarius
• Propertius • Elegies
• Prudentius • Against symmachus
• Q
• Quintilian • Greater Declamations
• Quintilian • Orator’s Education
• R
• Rabelais, François • Gargantua
• Ronsard, Pierre de • Remonstrance au peuple de France
• Rutilius Namatianus • De Reditu suo
• s
• saint-Gelais, Mellin de • Oeuvres poëtiques
• sallust • Letters to Caesar
• sallust • War with Catiline
• secundus, Johannes • Elegies
• seneca • Agamemnon
• seneca • De Beneficiis
• seneca • De Consolatione ad Polybium
• seneca • De Ira
• seneca • De Tranquilitate Animi
• seneca * • Epigrammata
• seneca • Epistles
• seneca • Hercules Furens
• seneca • Oedipus
• seneca • On Providence
• seneca • Phaedra
• seneca • Phoenician Women
• seneca • Thyestes
• seneca • Trojan Women
• seneca the Elder • Controversiae
• seneca the Elder • suasoriae
• sidonius Apollinaris • Epistles
• sidonius Apollinaris • Poems
• silius Italicus • Punica
• sophocles • Ajax
• statius • Thebaid
• statius • silvae
• stobaeus • Florilegium
• suetonius • Divus Claudius
• suetonius • Divus Iulius
• Publilius syrus • sententiae
• T
• Tacitus • Agricola
• Tacitus • Annals
• Tacitus • Germania
• Tacitus • Histories
• Tasso, Torquato • Aminta
• Tasso, Torquato • Jerusalem Delivered
• Terence • Adelphi
• Terence • Andria
• Terence • Eunuchus
• Terence • Heautontimorumenos
• Terence • Phormio
• Tertullian • Apology
• Tertullian • De Pudicitia
• Theocritus • Idylls
• Tibullus • Elegiae
• V
• Valerius Maximus • Memorable Deeds and sayings
• Vegetius • De Re Militari
• Virgil • Æneid
• Virgil • Eclogues
• Virgil • Georgics
• X
• Xenophon • Cyropaedia
• Z
• Zonaras, Joannes • Extracts of History
• Collections
• Priapea
• Book of Genesis
• Book of Psalms
• Ecclesiastes
• Wisdom of solomon
• Gospel of Matthew
• Gospel of Luke
• Acts of the Apostles
• First Epistle to the Corinthians
• second Epistle to the Corinthians
• Epistle to the Colossians
• First Epistle of Peter