The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
301–400
1 work
393
Latin
De Viris Illustribus
Jerome · c. 347–420
Short notices of a hundred and thirty-five Christian writers and their books, from Peter to Jerome himself, compiled to show pagans that Christianity had a literature.
1301–1400
1 work
c. 1308–1320
Italian
Divina Commedia
Dante Alighieri · 1265–1321
A poet lost in a dark wood is led down through hell, up the mountain of purgatory, and out through the spheres of heaven, meeting the dead of his own city at every level and arriving at a vision of the love that moves the sun and the other stars.
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