Christian saints -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
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Le Sagre Metamorfosi Rappresentate Nelle Vite di Dieci Santissime Donne, Che Sotto l'Abito di Diverso Sesso, Giunsero ad un'alto Grado di Perfezione Evangelica (in Italian; Rome: Bernabo, 1710), by Anton Maria Bonucci (multiple formats at Google)- The Legende, Named in Latyn Legenda Aurea, That is to Say in Englysshe the Golden Legende (London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1527), by de Voragine Jacobus, trans. by William Caxton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Aelfric's Lives of Saints: Being a Set of Sermons on Saints' Days Formerly Observed by the English Church (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trubner and Co., 1881), by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric, ed. by Walter W. Skeat (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Golden Legend (unique very early printed copy of selections, missing some pages; 1483), by Jacobus de Voragine, trans. by William Caxton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Golden Legend or Lives of the Saints, by Jacobus de Voragine, ed. by Frederick Startridge Ellis, trans. by William Caxton (HTML with commentary at Fordham)
- Le Sagre Metamorfosi Rappresentate Nelle Vite di Dieci Santissime Donne, Che Sotto l'Abito di Diverso Sesso, Giunsero ad un'alto Grado di Perfezione Evangelica (in Italian; Rome: Bernabo, 1710), by Anton Maria Bonucci (multiple formats at Google)
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Filed under: Christian saints -- Biography- The Book of Saints and Heroes (1912), by Mrs. Lang, ed. by Andrew Lang, illust. by H. J. Ford (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Miniature Lives of the Saints for Every Day in the Year (21st edition, 2 volumes; London: Burns and Oates; New York et al.: Benziger Bros., n.d.), ed. by Henry Sebastian Bowden (page images at HathiTrust)
- Francis Xavier: His Life, His Times (4 volumes; Rome: Jesuit Historical Institute, 1973-1982), by Georg Schurhammer, trans. by M. Joseph Costelloe (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Irish Saint: The Life Story of Ann Preston, Known Also as "Holy Ann", by Helen E. Bingham (PDF at nnu.edu)
- Historias de la Corte Celestial, por un Sacristan Jubilado (in Spanish; Madrid: Imprenta popular, ca. 1891), by Narciso Campillo y Correa (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Life and Times of Saint Aldhelm, First Bishop of Sherborne, A.D. 705-709 (Bath: W. Lewis, 1878), by W. H. Rich Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
- St. Paul the Hero (New York: Macmillan, 1922), by Rufus M. Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Jeanne d'Arc (in French; Paris: Plon-Nourrit: New York: The Century Co., 1896), by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Joan of Arc (New York: The Century Co., ca. 1907), by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Joan of Arc (abridged translation; Philadelphia: David McKay, 1918), by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- The Student's Life of Paul (New York and London: Macmillan, 1899), by George Holley Gilbert (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Antiquitates Apostolicae: or, The Lives, Acts, and Martyrdoms of the Holy Apostles of Our Saviour; To Which Are Added, Lives of the Two Evangelists, St. Mark and St. Luke; As Also, a Brief Enumeration and Account of the Apostles and Their Successors for the First Three Hundred Years, in the Five Great Apostolical Churches (2 volumes; London: J. Hatchard and Son; et al., 1834), by William Cave, contrib. by Henry Stebbing
- A Short Account of the First Preaching of the Gospel by the Apostles: Being a Continuation of "Conversations on the Life of Jesus Christ", by a Mother (London: B. Fellowes and J. Harris, 1830), by Elizabeth Whately (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt, One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (with other extracts from his writings, edited by his son; Chicago: Pub. for Pratt Bros., by Law, King and Law, 1888), by Parley P. Pratt, ed. by Parley P. Pratt (multiple formats at archive.prg)
- Life of St. Columba (English and partial Latin), by Saint Adamnan (HTML with commentary at Fordham)
- The Life of St. Macrina, by Gregory of Nyssa, ed. by W. K. Lowther Clarke (HTML at tertullian.org)
- The Life of St. Frances of Rome, of Blessed Lucy of Narni, of Dominica of Paradiso, and of Anne De Montmorency, With An Introductory Essay on the Miraculous Life of the Saints (New York and Montreal: D. and J. Sadlier, ca.1885), by Georgiana Fullerton, contrib. by J. M. Capes
- Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives in English Translation, ed. by Alice-Mary Maffry Talbot (PDF with commentary at doaks.org)
- The Sword of God: Jeanne d'Arc (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., 1931), by S. Guy Endore (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leben der Heiligen Teresa von Jesus, von ihr Selbst Geschrieben: Nach der Neuesten Originalausgabe Don Vicente de la Fuente Professor der Theologie an der Universität zu Madrid, aus dem Spanischen übersezt von Ida Gräfin Hahn-Hahn (in German; Mainz: Kirchheim, 1867), by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, ed. by Vicente de la Fuente, trans. by Ida Hahn-Hahn (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin, by Saint Catherine of Siena (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
- Life and Revelations of Saint Margaret of Cortona: Dedicated to Her Brothers and Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis (London: Burns and Oates; Dublin; M. H. Gill and Sons, 1883), by Giunta Bevegnati, trans. by F. M'Donogh Mahony, contrib. by J.-F.-O. Luquet
- The Life of Saint Margaret of Cortona (Philadelphia: P. F. Cunningham and Son, 1888), by Antonio Francesco Giovagnoli (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Life and Legend of the Lady Saint Clare (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910), trans. by Charlotte Balfour, contrib. by Francis Du Puis, Father Cuthbert, and Clare of Assisi
- Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, trans. by Albert C. Outler (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
- Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, ed. by James J. O'Donnell (HTML at Georgetown)
- Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, trans. by E. B. Pusey
- Narrative of a Captivity Among the Mohawk Indians, and a Description of New Netherland in 1642-3 (New York: Press of the Historical Society, 1856), by Isaac Jogues and John Gilmary Shea (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Lives of the English Saints, Written by Various Hands at the Suggestion of John Henry Newman, Afterwards Cardinal (6 volumes; London: S. T. Freemantle, 1900-1901), ed. by John Henry Newman and Arthur Wollaston Hutton, contrib. by John Bernard Dalgairns, Frederick William Faber, Mark Pattison, John Walker, Frederick Oakeley, Thomas Meyrick, Robert Ornsby, Robert A. Coffin, James Anthony Froude, R. W. Church, T. Mozley, and John Barrow
- Benedicti Abbatis Petriburgensis, De Vita et Miraculis S. Thomae Cantuar: The Life and Miracles of Saint Thomas of Canterbury (in Latin, with English notes; London: Pub. for the Caxton Society by A. Black, 1850), by Abbot of Peterborough Benedict, ed. by J. A. Giles (multiple formats at Google)
- Annus Ecclesiasticus Graeco-Slavicus, Editus Anno Millenario Sanctorum Cyrilli et Methodii, Slavice Geatis Apostolorum (in Latin; Brussels: Typ. Henrici Goemaere, 1863), by I. Martynov
- The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse (based on the 8th edition of Soeur Therese of Lisieux (1922), with some supplementary material omitted), by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, ed. by David McClamrock, trans. by Thomas N. Taylor (Gutenberg text)
- The Confession of Saint Patrick, by Saint Patrick (HTML at CCEL)
- The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi, by Candide Chalippe, ed. by Hilarion Duerk (Gutenberg text)
- Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Susan Ashbrook Harvey (HTML at UC Press)
- Denial and Repression of Antisemitism: Post-Communist Remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović (Budapest: Central European University Press, c2008), by Jovan Byford (multiple formats with commentary at openedition.org)
- Loyola's Acts: The Rhetoric of the Self (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle (HTML at UC Press)
- The Contemporary Challenge of John of the Cross: An Introduction to His Life and Teaching, by Leonard Doohan (HTML at archive.org)
- Vitae Selectorum Aliquot Virorum Qui Doctrinâ, Dignitate, Aut Pietate Inclaruere (in Latin; London: A. G. and J. P., 1681), by William Bates
- The Tragedies, Gathered by Ihon Bochas, of All Such Princes as Fell From Theyr Estates Throughe the Mutability of Fortune Since the Creacion of Adam (this copy appears to have the title page of "A Memorial of Suche Princes", a related suppressed publication, rather than this work's intended title page; London: J. Wayland, ca. 1554), by Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. by John Lydgate, contrib. by William Baldwin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Aemilius Probus, De Excellentibus Ducibus Exterarum Gentium; et, Cornelli Nepotis Quae Supersunt (in Latin; Basel: Bibliopolii Schweighauseriani, 1841), by Cornelius Nepos, ed. by Karl Ludwig Roth (page images at HathiTrust)
- Opuscoli Morali di Leon Batista Alberti (in Italian; Venice: Appresso Francesco Franceschi, Sanese, 1568), by Leon Battista Alberti, ed. by Cosimo Bartoli (page images at HathiTrust)
- Three Discourses of Happiness, Virtue, and Liberty, Collected From the Works of the Learn'd Gassendi (London: Printed for Awnsham and J. Churchil, 1699), by Pierre Gassendi, ed. by François Bernier (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- A Treatise of Morall Phylosophie, Contayning the Sayings of the Wyse (London: E. Whitchurche, 1547)
- Gorgias (New York: Liberal Arts Press, c1952), by Plato, trans. by W. C. Helmbold (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Tragedies, Gathered by Ihon Bochas, of All Such Princes as Fell From Theyr Estates Throughe the Mutability of Fortune Since the Creacion of Adam (this copy appears to have the title page of "A Memorial of Suche Princes", a related suppressed publication, rather than this work's intended title page; London: J. Wayland, ca. 1554), by Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. by John Lydgate, contrib. by William Baldwin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Charmides, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
- Charmides, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)
- The Critique of Practical Reason, by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Gutenberg text)
- De Officiis, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, trans. by Walter Miller (HTML at stoics.com)
- The Distichs of Cato: A Famous Medieval Textbook, trans. by Wayland Johnson Chase (multieple formats at archive.org)
- Eudemian Ethics, by Aristotle (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Gutenberg text)
- Gorgias, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
- Gorgias, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)
- Groundlaying: Kant's Search for the Highest Principle of Morality (German editions and English translations of Kants's Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, with commentary), by Immanuel Kant, ed. by Stephen Orr (multiple formats with commentary at appspot.com)
- The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics, by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Gutenberg text)
- Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. D. Ross
- Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, trans. by H. Rackham (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, Newly Translated into English (third edition; London: Longmans, Green, 1879), by Aristotle, trans. by Robert Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
- Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1898), by Plutarch, ed. by A. R. Shilleto (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Plutarch's Morals: Theosophical Essays (London: George Bell and Sons, 1908), by Plutarch, trans. by C. W. King (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Sayings of the Wise, or, Food for Thought: A Book of Moral Wisdom, Gathered From the Ancient Philosophers (London: E. Stock, 1908), by William Baldwin
- The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated; With a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (3 volumes; London: T. Tegg, 1845), by Ralph Cudworth, trans. by John Harrison, contrib. by Johann Lorenz Mosheim
- Ad Lucilium Epistolae Morales (in Latin and English; 3 volumes; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1918-1925), by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, trans. by Richard M. Gummere
- The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence as the Science of Right (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1887), by Immanuel Kant, trans. by W. Hastie (HTML and PDF files at libertyfund.org)
- Protagoras, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
- Protagoras, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)
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