European ancient literature

Love's Labor's Lost is an early comedy by Shakespeare, published and staged during the author's lifetime, then forgotten for two centuries and only in the tw...

The publication is a continuation of the Russian translation of “Chronicles” by Jean Froissart, published in 2008. It presents the three main editions of Boo...

For several centuries, this book was well known and loved in many countries of Western Europe. It was translated into many languages and read both in royal p...

This publication, prepared by the leading researcher of the State Hermitage, art critic Oleg Yakovlevich Neverov, includes the infamous erotic sonnets “Love ...

The book presents a significant amount of selected poetic works by Lorenzo de' Medici (1449–1492), an Italian poet, thinker and statesman of the Renaissance,...

Nicolas Montfaucon de Villars, who in his time gained fame for his sometimes scandalous novels and mannerist poems, gained true literary immortality thanks t...

Geoffroy de Villehardouin was a major French feudal lord, military leader, and one of the leaders of the Fourth Crusade. He compiled his eyewitness account o...

"The Saga of Eirik the Red" (Isl. Eiríks saga rauða) is an Icelandic saga about the Viking journeys to North America. The saga chronicles the events that led...

“100 masterpieces about love” is a unique series from the Strelbitsky publishing house, which includes the best works of all times and peoples about the most...