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
- 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