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• Early works to 1800

• Decamerone. Day 10. Novel 10 (Printed by H. L[ownes] for William Lugger; and are to be sold at his shop in Bedlem, neere Moore-Field, 1619), by Giovanni Boccaccio (page images at HathiTrust)
• The moste notable Historie of John Lorde Mandosse Translated from the Spanish by T. de la Peend ([London : T. Colwell], 1565), by Matteo Bandello, Pierre Boaistuau, and Thomas Peend (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Pleasaunt disport of divers noble personages. ([Imprinted at London : In Pater Noster Rowe, at the signe of the Marmayd, by H. Bynneman, for Richard Smyth and Nicholas England., Anno Domini. 1567]), by Giovanni Boccaccio, Humphrey Gifford, and Henry Grantham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Decamerone. Day 10. Novel 10. English (At London : Printed by H. L[ownes] for William Lugger; and are to be sold at his shop in Bedlem, neere Moore-Field, 1619), by Giovanni Boccaccio (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Decameron. Day 10. Novel 10. English (London : Printed by E. P[urslowe] for Iohn Wright, .., [ca. 1640]), by Giovanni Boccaccio (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The Italian Novelists, Translated From the Originals, With Critical and Biographical Notes (single-volume Frederick Warne edition), ed. by Thomas Roscoe (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• The Italian novelists: selected from the most approved authors in that language; from the earliest period down to the close of the eighteenth century: arranged in an historical and chronological series. Tr. from the original Italian. Accompanied with notes, critical and biographical (W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1836), by Thomas Roscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of humour, gallantry, & romance, selected and translated from the Italian. (C. Baldwyn, 1824), by Thomas Roscoe, George Cruikshank, Southern, and John Yonge Akerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Italian novelists (F. Warne, 1900), by Thomas Roscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Italian novelists : selected from the most approved authors in that language ; from the earliest period down to the close of the eighteenth century ; arranged in an historical and chronological series (Printed for S. Prowett, 1825), by Thomas Roscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The intruder, a novel (The Page co., 1910), by Gabriele D'Annunzio and Arthur Hornblow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Roman nights at the tomb of the Scipios. (A. Constable and Co.;, 1825), by Alessandro Verri (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Italian novelists (F. Warne, 1880), by Thomas Roscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Italian tales : tales of humor, gallantry, and romance (Printed for Charles Baldwyn, 1824), by George Cruikshank and Thomas Roscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short story classics (Foreign), Vol. 2, Italian and Scandinavian, ed. by William Patten (Gutenberg ebook)
• Il Novellino: The hundred old tales, trans. by Edward Storer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Desire of Life, by Matilde Serao, trans. by William Collinge (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tales of My Native Town, by Gabriele D'Annunzio, trans. by Gaetano Ettore Raffaele Mantellini, contrib. by Joseph Hergesheimer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Farewell Love! A Novel, by Matilde Serao, trans. by Aline Harland, contrib. by Edmund Gosse (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Land of Cockayne: A Novel, by Matilde Serao (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Triumph of Death, by Gabriele D'Annunzio, trans. by Arthur Hornblow (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Intruder, by Gabriele D'Annunzio, trans. by Arthur Hornblow (Gutenberg ebook)
• After the Pardon, by Matilde Serao (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tales of Humour, Gallantry & Romance, Selected and Translated from the Italian, trans. by Thomas Roscoe and John Yonge Akerman, illust. by George Cruikshank (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rule of the Monk; Or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century, by Giuseppe Garibaldi (Gutenberg ebook)
• Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga, by Giovanni Verga, trans. by Nathan Haskell Dole (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Betrothed: From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni, by Alessandro Manzoni (Gutenberg ebook)

• Modern Italian fiction in America, 1929-1954; an annotated bibliography of translations. (New York Public Library, 1956), by Vincent Luciani (page images at HathiTrust)

• Terrible Tales (Italian) (Paris et al.: Brentano's, ca. 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Stories By Foreign Authors: Italian, contrib. by Edmondo De Amicis, Antonio Fogazzaro, Gabriele D'Annunzio, and Enrico Castelnuovo (Gutenberg text)
• Early Italian love stories (Longmans, Green, 1899), by Una Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories by foreign authors : Italian. (Scribner, 1901), by Enrico Castelnuovo, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Antonio Fogazzaro, and Edmondo De Amicis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short story classics (Foreign), Vol. 2, Italian and Scandinavian, ed. by William Patten (Gutenberg ebook)
• Il Novellino: The hundred old tales, trans. by Edward Storer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tales of My Native Town, by Gabriele D'Annunzio, trans. by Gaetano Ettore Raffaele Mantellini, contrib. by Joseph Hergesheimer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Choice novels and amarous tales written by the most refined wits of Italy ; newly translated into English. (London : Printed by T.N. for Humphrey Moseley ..., 1652) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Decameron. (Priv. Print. for the Navarre Society, 1921), by Giovanni Boccaccio and J. M. Rigg (page images at HathiTrust)

• A posie of gilloflowers eche differing from other in colour and odour, yet all sweete. By Humfrey Gifford gent. (Imprinted at London : [By Thomas Dawson] for Iohn Perin, and are to be solde at his shop in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Angell, 1580), by Humphrey Gifford and Claudio Tolomei (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Hecatonphila. The arte of love. (Printed at London : By P. S[hort] for William Leake: and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Greyhound, 1598), by Leon Battista Alberti (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Filocolo. English ([Imprinted at London, : By Henry Bynneman, for Rycharde Smyth, Anno. 1571]), by Giovanni Boccaccio, Humphrey Gifford, and Henry Grantham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Novelle. Selections. (Imprinted at London : By Iohn Charlewood for Thomas Butter dwelling in Paules Churchyarde neeere to S. Austines gate at the signe of the Shippe, 1576), by Thomas Achelley and Matteo Bandello (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Two tales, translated out of Ariosto: the one in dispraise of men, the other in disgrace of women. VVith certaine other Italian stanzas and prouerbs. By R.T. gentleman (Printed at London : By Valentine Sims dwelling on Adling hill at the signe of the white Swanne, 1597), by Lodovico Ariosto and Robert Tofte (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Orlando innamorato. Selections. English (Printed at London : By Valentine Sims, dwelling on Adling hil at the signe of the white Swanne., 1598), by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Robert Tofte (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Plato in twelve volumes (Harvard University Press ;, 1914), by Plato, Paul Shorey, Robert Gregg Bury, W. R. M. Lamb, and Harold North Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertations on the English language (Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1951), by Noah Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kant's Schriften (Berlin : Georg Reimer, 1902-<2020>, 1902), by Immanuel Kant, Eduard Gerresheim, Katharina Holger, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages of a Frenchman exiled for his religion (Press of the Pioneers, 1934), by of Dauphiné Durand, Bruce Rogers, Gilbert Chinard, Nicholas Hayward, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionarii Calepini, octolinguis, et nouissime recogniti, plurimisque dictionibus et variis significationibus aucti, ac diligentissime emendati : altera pars. (sumptibus Caldorianae Societatis, 1620), by Ambrogio Calepino, Jean Passerat, Pedro González de Mendoza, and Societé Caldoriene (Colonia) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Casp. Bartholini D. ... Syntagma medicum & chirurgicum De cauteriis praesertim potestate agentibus seu ruptoriis : olim in Academia Patavina nationi Germanicae praelectum, nunc multorum desideriis sasfaciendi ergo revisum, auctum, arcanisque cauterijs usu probatissimis locupletatum & publici juris factum : Accessit ejusdem autoris De aere pestilenti corrigendo consilium medicum (impensis Salomonis Sartorii, 1624), by Caspar Bartholin, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), and Salomon Sartor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon (G. Routledge & sons, limited;, 1905), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Robert Phillimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lumbrico terrestri. (Joh. Chrisoph. Stösselii, 1703), by Christian Franz Paullini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cours de fièvres. (L'imprimerie de Jean Francois Picot, 1791), by J.-C.-M.-G. de Grimaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manifiesto canonico,christiano y politico por... D.Fra[n]cisco Añoa y Busto... en la disputa que con ocasion de la... exequias de... Doña Maria Ana de Neoburg ha ocurrido don el... Conde de Maceda... (s.n., 1740), by Francisco Ignacio Añoa y Busto and Reina consorte de Carlos II Mariana de Neoburgo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apology for the Bible : in a series of letters addressed to Thomas Paine, author of The age of reason (Published by E. Stevenson & F.A. Owen for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1855), by Richard Watson, Charles Leslie, and Thomas Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sancti Aureli Augustini opera. (Apud Geroldi Filium, 1887), by Saint Augustine of Hippo (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1776), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1500), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qur'ān leaf] (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-awwal. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-sādis ʻashar. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Juzʼ al-thānī wa-al-ʻishrūn]. (1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-khāmis ʻashar min al-rabʻah al-sharīfah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-khāmis wa-al-ʻishrūn. (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ ʻashar (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-sābiʻ wa-al-ʻishrūn (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-thāmin (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by David Eugene Smith, Nafīsah bint al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ghalyūn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1818), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān (Columbia University Libraries, 1680), by David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Iṣfahānī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār ... (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī, David Eugene Smith, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd Būṣīrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān (Columbia University Libraries, 1741), by David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Muḥsin Iṣfahānī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Juzʼ al-khāmis ʻashar]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith, al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Bakrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-ḥādī ʻashar. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith, al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Bakrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-ʻishrūn. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taʻlīq al-durrah al-Shanawānīyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Ajurrūmīyah fī ʻilm al-ʻArabīyah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1637), by Abū Bakr ibn Ismāʻīl Shanawānī, David Eugene Smith, Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh Azharī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ājurrūm, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Risālah fī al-uṣūl al-ʻasharah min al-taṣawwuf. Risālat al-Taḥdhīr. (Columbia University Libraries, 1709), by George A. Plimpton, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Malik Muttaqī, 1145 or 1146-1221 Nazhmiddin Kubro, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1799), by ʻAlī ibn Ḥamzah, ʻAlī Shukrī, Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library), and American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) and American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qurʼān leaves]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1300), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dīvān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tuḥfatu'l-ʻirfān (Columbia University Libraries, 1720), by Muḥammed Muṣīb Narḫīzāde, David Eugene Smith, Şahidî İbrahim Dede, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1200), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qurʼān folio]. (Columbia University Libraries, 0800), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb sharḥ al-Jurrūmīyah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1580), by Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad Jibrīl, David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad ʻAwwād ibn Ḥusayn Afandī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Khamsah]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1568), by approximately 1253-1325 Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vasiyet (Columbia University Libraries, 1726), by approximately 1522-1573 Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, Emîr Süleyman, active 1726 Kâtip Boşnāḳ Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmet, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1200), by Harry G. Friedman and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1779), by David Eugene Smith, active 1779 Ismāʻīl ibn Ṣāliḥ, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Subḥat al-abrār]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Jami, Alan H. Kempner, Margaret Loeb Kempner, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Leaf from Khusraw va Shīrīn]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1500), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Gulistān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Sa'di, A. V. Williams Jackson, A. Beijan, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sahm al-muṣīb fī al-radd ʻalá al-Khaṭīb (Columbia University Libraries, 1226), by Sultan of Damascus Muʻaẓẓam, active 1226 ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Khamsah]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Carl Reinhardt, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ. (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by David Eugene Smith, Nafīsah bint al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ghalyūn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle de l'ame (s.n., 1747), by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil Du Châtelet, and François-Joseph Hunauld (page images at HathiTrust)

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