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• Les martyrologes historiques du moyen age : étude sur la formation du martyrologe romain (Librairie Victor Lecoffre :, 1908), by Henri Quentin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Victories of the martyrs; or, The lives of the most celebrated martyrs of the Church (Benziger Bros. ;, 1887), by Alfonso Maria de' Liguori and Eugene Grimm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Svi͡edi͡enīi͡a o chastit͡si͡e svi͡atykh moshcheĭ velikomuchennika i t͡si͡eliteli͡a Panteleĭmona ot vsechestnyi͡a glavy ego ... (Tip. Skari͡atina, 1873) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vida, milagros, y martyrio, del gloriosissimo arzobispo de Sevilla San Laureano : con dissertaciones chronologico-historicas, en que se reducen à examen los puntos dudosos (En la Imprenta de C. Zenobio, 1722), by Diego Tello Lasso de la Vega (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia laurentina : de la vida, martirio y patria de el invicto martir levita S. Lorenzo, lustre de España y de su esclarecida patria Valencia del Cid ; distribuida en tres partes y manifestada en doze breves canticos, formados de escogidos tarazeados del laureado poeta Virgilio por composicion centi-metra (Impr. de J. Garcia, 1717), by Pasqual Huguet y Rubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• El inclito martir español, San Laurencio : discursos morales a su vida y martyrio con la exposicion del Psal. 16 (I. de Borja, 1618), by Diego Vélez de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vie de Monseigneur Borie, évêque nommé d'Acanthe, vicaire apostolique du Tong-King occidental, martyr dans la persécution suscitée le 3 janvier 1833 (J. Casterman, 1844), by Pierre-Dumoulin-Henri Borie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acta martyrum opera ac studio (G. Josephi Manz, 1859), by Thierry Ruinart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vita di S. Pantaleone : martire, protettore della città e diocesi di Crema. (Antonio Calvi, 1837), by Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana and Giulio Cesare Tensini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of George Wishart, the Scottish martyr : with his translation of the Helvetian Confession and a genealogical history of the family of Wishart. (Printed for the Grampian Club, 1876), by Charles Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorie intorno alla vita di suor Vincenza Gerosa al secolo Caterina : fondatrice con Bartolomea Capitanio dell' istituto delle suore della carità in Lovere (Pio istituto dei figli di Maria, 1862), by Gaetano Scandella and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)
• The martyr of Sumatra: a memoir of Henry Lyman (New York : R. Carter, 1857., 1857), by Henry Lyman and Hannah Lyman Willard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of J. Théophane Vénard, martyr in Tonquin, or, What love can do (Burns, Oates, 1870), by Théophane Vénard and Mary Elizabeth A'Court Herbert Herbert of Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bloody Theatre, or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians: who baptized only upon confession of faith, and who suffered and died for the testimony of Jesus, their savior, from the time of Christ to the year A.D. 1660, by Thieleman J. van Braght, trans. by Joseph F. Sohm (Gutenberg ebook)

• Lion-hearted; the story of Bishop Hannington's life told for boys and girls. (Young, 1889), by E. C. Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lion-hearted : the story of Bishop Hannington's life, told for boys and girls (Seeley, 1890), by E. C. Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Charles Garnier de la Compagnie de Jésus, massacré par les Iroquois, le 7 décembre 1649 (Édition du Messager canadien, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Charles Garnier, victim of the Iroquois, 1605-1639 (Canadian Messenger, 1916), by E. J. Devine (page images at HathiTrust)

• Der selige Johannes von Triora : ein Märtyrer Chinas zu Anfang des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (Paulinus-Druckerei, 1912), by Schwester Maria Paula (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Universal history of martyrdom (Print[ed for Alex. Hogg, at the] King's-Arms, No. 16, Paternoster-Row ;, 1784), by John Foxe, Alexander Hogg, and Paul Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomas Morus. (Herder, 1879), by Reinhold Baumstark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The acts and monuments of John Foxe : with a life of the martyrologist, and vindication of the work (Seeley, Burnside, and Seeley, 1843), by John Foxe and George Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)

• Martyredome of Joane Waste, a blinde woman in the towne of Darbie (Printed and sold by G. Wilkins, 1700) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Edmund Campion: A Biography (new edition; London: John Hodges, 1896), by Richard Simpson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Blessed Edmund Campion, by Louise Imogen Guiney, illust. by James Durden and John Smart (Gutenberg ebook)

• Missione al Gran Mogor del P. Ridolfo Aqvaviva della Compagnia di Gesu; sua vita e morte e d'altri quattro compagni uccisi in odio della Fede in Salsete di Goa (Tip. del Majno, 1819), by Daniello Bartoli (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memorie storiche (Tip. Emiliana, 1904), by Giuseppe Callegari, Convento di San Giacomo a Monselice (Italy), and Ordine di fratri minori missionario apostolico nell'Indo-Cina (Fransiscans) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Giordano Bruno: His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1914), by William Boulting (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Savonarola his life and times (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge;, 1878), by William Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Savonarola his life and time (A.C. McClurg, 1890), by William Clark (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memorie storiche (Tip. Emiliana, 1904), by Giuseppe Callegari, Convento di San Giacomo a Monselice (Italy), and Ordine di fratri minori missionario apostolico nell'Indo-Cina (Fransiscans) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mártires Agustinos del Japon : ó sea vida y martirio de los Beatos Fr. Fernando de San José, Fr. Pedro de Zúñiga y demás compañeros Mártires, beatificados en 7 de Julio del presente año por N. santísimo Padre Pio IX (Imp. de D. Juan de la Cuesta, 1867), by Manuel Jimenez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vida de San Felipe de Jesus, protomartir de Japon y patron de su patria Mexico (Calle del Bautisterio de S. Catalina Mr. no. 3., 1801), by José Montes de Oca (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vida del dichoso y venerable padre Marcelo Francisco Mastrilli, de la Compañia de Iesus, que muriò en el Iapon por la fè de Christo, sacada de los processos autenticos de su vida y muerte ,, (En Madrid : Por Maria de Quiñones, año M.DC.XXXX [1640], 1640), by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg and Maria de Quiñones (page images at HathiTrust)

• Über die passio sanctorum quatuor coronatorum. (Druck von W. Pormetter, 1886), by Edmund Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lives of twenty-six martyrs of Tonkin beatified on May 7, 1900 (Browne and Nolan, 1913), by Marie Bertrand Cothonay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vida del venerable protomártir del Colegio de Dominicos de Ocaña, reverendísimo padre Fr. José María Díaz Sanjurjo, obispo de Platea y vicario apostólico del Tung-King Central (Tipografía de Gerardo Castro, 1899), by Francisco Trapiello y Sierra (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vida y martirio de los XXVI [i.e. veinte y seis] mártires ... (Impr. del Colegio de Sto. Tomás, 1900), by Joaquín Recoder y Dorda (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A modern martyr (Catholic Foreign Missionary Bureau, 1906), by Théophane Vénard, James Anthony Walsh, and Mary Elizabeth Herbert Herbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vida del venerable protomártir del Colegio de Dominicos de Ocaña, reverendísimo padre Fr. José María Díaz Sanjurjo, obispo de Platea y vicario apostólico del Tung-King Central (Tipografía de Gerardo Castro, 1899), by Francisco Trapiello y Sierra (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die griechisch-römische Biographie nach ihrer litterarischen Form (B.G. Teubner, 1901), by Friedrich Leo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Early Greek Poets' Lives: The Shaping of the Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 2013), by Maarit Kivilo (JSTOR ebook)

• Melanchthons psychologie, seine schrift de anima in ihrer abhängigkeit von Aristoteles und Galenos ... (Verlag von E. Marquardsen, 1897), by Johann Rump (page images at HathiTrust)

• Indigenous Biography and Autobiography (Canberra: ANU Press, 2008), ed. by Peter Read, Frances Peters-Little, and Anna Haebich (JSTOR ebook)

• Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (25th anniversary edition; New York et al.: P. Lang, 2020), by A. Robert Lee
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  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Relative Histories: Mediating History in Asian American Family Memoirs (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2022), by Rocio G. Davis (JSTOR ebook)

• The ADB’s Story (Canberra: ANU Press, 2013), ed. by Christine Fernon and Melanie Nolan (JSTOR ebook)

• Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), ed. by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)

• Rousseau's Occasional Autobiographies (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by Susan K. Jackson (PDF at Ohio State)

• Zu der am 22. Maerz 1863 Vormittags 11 1/2 Uhr im Festsaale der Ritter-Akademie stattfindenden Feier des Allerhöchsten Geburtstages Seiner Majestät des Königs ladet ehrerbietig und ergebenst ein der Director Dr. Ernst Köpke, Professor. (A. Müller, 1863), by Ernst Rudolf Anastasius Köpke (page images at HathiTrust)
• De hypomnematis Graecis (Typis Nauckianis, 1842), by Ernst Rudolf Anastasius Köpke (page images at HathiTrust)

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