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 MarcellinusHistory
- Amyot, JacquesVies des hommes illustres, grecs et romains
- Amyot, JacquesOeuvres morales et philosophiques de Plutarque
- AnacreonOdes
- AriostoOrlando Furioso
- AugustineCity of God
- AugustineOn Order
- AusoniusEpigrammata
- B
- Beza, TheodoreJuvenilia
- Buchanan, GeorgeFranciscanus et Fratres
- Buchanan, GeorgeJohn the Baptist
- C
- CaesarCivil War
- CaesarGallic War
- Calpurnius SiculusBucolica
- CatullusPoems
- CiceroAcademica
- CiceroLetters to Friends
- CiceroOn Fate
- CiceroFragmenta
- CiceroLucullus
- CiceroOn Divination
- CiceroOn Duties
- CiceroOn Ends
- CiceroOn Friendship
- CiceroOn Old Age
- CiceroOn the Nature of the Gods
- CiceroOn the Orator
- CiceroPro Ligario
- CiceroStoic Paradoxes
- CiceroTimaeus
- CiceroTusculan Disputations
- Quintus Tullius CiceroHandbook of Electioneering
- ClaudianAgainst Eutropius
- ClaudianAgainst Rufinus
- ClaudianLetters to Friends
- ClaudianPanegyric on the Sixth Consulship of the Emperor Honorius
- CorinnaTestimonia
- Quintus Curtius RufusHistories of Alexander the Great
- D
- DanteInferno
- DantePurgatorio
- Diodorus SiculusLibrary of History
- Diogenes LaërtiusLives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
- Du Bellay, MartinMémoires
- E
- ErasmusAdagia
- Estienne, HenriApologie pour Hérodote
- F
- FlorusEpitome of Roman History
- G
- Goulart, SimonHistoire de Portugal
- Guicciardini, FrancescoHistory of Italy
- Aulus GelliusAttic Nights
- H
- HerodotusHistories
- HomerIliad
- HomerOdyssey
- HoraceArt of Poetry
- HoraceEpistles
- HoraceEpodes
- HoraceOdes
- HoraceOdes
- HoraceSatires
- J
- JeromeEpistulae
- JeromeAgainst Jovinianus
- JuvenalSatires
- L
- La Boétie, Étienne deMesnagerie de Xénophon
- La Boétie, Étienne deVers François
- LactantiusDivinae institutiones
- Lipsius, JustusDe Constantia Libri Duo
- Lipsius, JustusSaturnalium Sermonum Libri Duo
- Lipsius, JustusPoliticorum sive Civilis Doctrinae Libri Sex
- LivyHistory of Rome
- LucanCivil War
- LucretiusOn the Nature of Things
- M
- MacrobiusSaturnalia
- ManiliusAstronomica
- Marot, ClémentEpistres
- MartialEpigrams
- MartialOn the Spectacles
- MaximianusElegies
- MenanderMonostichoi
- N
- NeposAtticus
- Nonius MarcellusDe Compendiosa Doctrina
- O
- OvidAmores
- OvidArs Amatoria
- OvidEpistles
- OvidEx Ponto
- OvidFasti
- OvidHeroides
- OvidMetamorphoses
- OvidRemedia Amoris
- OvidTristia
- P
- Paradin, GuillaumeContinuation de l'Histoire de nostre temps
- PersiusSatires
- PetrarchIl Canzoniere
- PetroniusPoems
- PetroniusSatyricon
- Pibrac, Guy du Faur deLes quatrains du seigneur de Pybrac
- PlatoLaws
- PlatoRepublic
- PlatoTimaeus
- PlautusCaptives
- PlautusMostellaria
- PlautusPseudolus
- PlautusTrinummus
- PlinyNatural History
- PlutarchMoralia. Against the Stoics on Common Conceptions
- PlutarchMoralia. On Love
- PlutarchParallel Lives. Brutus
- PlutarchParallel Lives. Caesar
- PlutarchParallel Lives. Lycurgus
- PlutarchParallel Lives. Lysander
- PlutarchSayings of Kings and Commanders
- ProbusIn Vergilii Bucolica et Georgica Commentarius
- PropertiusElegies
- PrudentiusAgainst Symmachus
- Q
- QuintilianGreater Declamations
- QuintilianOrator’s Education
- R
- Rabelais, FrançoisGargantua
- Ronsard, Pierre deRemonstrance au peuple de France
- Rutilius NamatianusDe Reditu Suo
- S
- Saint-Gelais, Mellin deOeuvres poëtiques
- SallustLetters to Caesar
- SallustWar with Catiline
- Secundus, JohannesElegies
- SenecaAgamemnon
- SenecaDe Beneficiis
- SenecaDe Consolatione ad Polybium
- SenecaDe Ira
- SenecaDe Tranquilitate Animi
- Seneca *Epigrammata
- SenecaEpistles
- SenecaHercules Furens
- SenecaOedipus
- SenecaOn Providence
- SenecaPhaedra
- SenecaPhoenician Women
- SenecaThyestes
- SenecaTrojan Women
- Seneca the ElderControversiae
- Seneca the ElderSuasoriae
- Sidonius ApollinarisEpistles
- Sidonius ApollinarisPoems
- Silius ItalicusPunica
- SophoclesAjax
- StatiusThebaid
- StatiusSilvae
- StobaeusFlorilegium
- SuetoniusDivus Iulius
- Publilius SyrusSententiae
- T
- TacitusAgricola
- TacitusAnnals
- TacitusGermania
- TacitusHistories
- Tasso, TorquatoAminta
- Tasso, TorquatoJerusalem Delivered
- TerenceAdelphi
- TerenceAndria
- TerenceEunuchus
- TerenceHeautontimorumenos
- TerencePhormio
- TertullianApology
- TertullianDe Pudicitia
- TheocritusIdylls
- TibullusElegiae
- V
- Valerius MaximusMemorable Deeds and Sayings
- VegetiusDe Re Militari
- VirgilÆneid
- VirgilEclogues
- VirgilGeorgics
- X
- XenophonCyropaedia
- Collections
- Priapea
- Book of Genesis
- Book of Psalms
- 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