![]() ![]() Edmund Spenser: Prothalamion The Faerie Queene.William Gilbert: On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies.John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion.Francois Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel.Martin Luther: Table Talk Three Treatises.Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly. ![]() Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy.Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde The Canterbury Tales.Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy The New Life On Monarchy.Augustine: On the Teacher Confessions City of God On Christian Doctrine Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic.Tacitus: Histories Annals Agricola Germania.Epicurus: Letter to Herodotus Letter to Menoecus.Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War.Reading list from “How To Read a Book” by Mortimer Adler(1972 edition) ![]()
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