European ancient literature

The Little Flowers of Saint Francis (I Fioretti di San Francesco) is a medieval Italian florilegium consisting of 53 chapters recounting various amazing, mir...

“Chartres School” is a phrase well known in the history of philosophy and literature, in fact a synonym for the “Renaissance of the 12th century”. This is no...

Written in the form of a prose drama, the novel by Lope de Vega Carpio (1562-1635) was published in 1632. This is a story of youthful love, told by a seventy...

The first volume of the Byzantine Writings on Islam series is a survey of anti-Muslim apologetic literature from the 7th to 15th centuries. The book presents...

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616) began writing his best novel, “The Cunning Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha,” with which the era of modern art began...

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) began writing his best novel, “The Cunning Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha,” with which the era of modern art began...

English writer Anna Radcliffe (1764-1823) is rightly called the queen of the “black” (Gothic) novel. Without exaggeration, we can say that Mystery, Horror, F...

In the life of Heliogabalus, part of the famous collection Historia Augusta, the biographer of this scandalous emperor, among other things, tells how he made...

Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun—until he comes upon a curious scene. ...

The collection of medieval English poems includes "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" - an example of a chivalric romance, "Sir Orfeo" - a popularized version ...

Chretien de Troyes' novel “Perceval, or the Tale of the Grail” is a great literary monument of the Middle Ages, which had a significant and lasting influence...

In the history of Italy, the 16th century (in Italian: Cinquecento) is the time of the brightest flowering of Renaissance culture in the first third of the c...