European ancient literature

What awakens the most indifferent and burns the coldest? What does everyone need? This is love. This publication includes selected erotic stories by classics...

The monastery on Mount Cassino was founded in 530 by the famous founder of Western monasticism, Saint Benedict of Nursia, and became the first monastery of t...

The book contains three chronicles: Adam of Bremen’s “Acts of the Archbishops of the Hamburg Church”, Helmold of Bosau’s “Slavic Chronicle” and Arnold of Lüb...

The author of Mr. d'Artagnan's apocryphal memoirs is considered to be Gasien (sometimes written as Gatien) de Courtille de Sandra. In the preface he is refer...

The book includes well-known collections of mischievous and instructive German Schwanks of the 16th century, as well as the so-called “folk books” of the sam...

This volume includes comedies by the most famous Italian authors of the 16th century - N. Machiavelli, B. Dovizi, P. Aretino, A. Piccolomini, G. M. Cecchi, a...

The Chronicle of Alfonso X is one of the main monuments of Castilian chronicle of the 14th century. Compiled at the court of Alfonso XI (1312–1350), it opens...

Wicked intrigue unfolds as an unlikely marriage leads to a path of risky desire in the lush, green Scottish Highlands.

Born into riches and groomed...

Lorenzo Valla is the largest ethical thinker of the Renaissance, who understood biblical and ancient ethics in the key of updated logic. Valla created a dyna...

Medieval legends about travel, eternal wanderers and the appearance of inhabitants of other worlds. Translation from Latin and Euro-French, literary translat...

The novel by Juanot Marturel and Marty Juan de Galba, which tells about the life of the noble Tyrant the White, full of adventures and exploits, is one of th...