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