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• Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
• Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- Translations into English
• Didactic literature -- Translations into English
• Translations into English

• The Bestiary: A Book of Beasts (New York: Putnam, 1960), ed. by T. H. White (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum (EETS extra series #33; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1879), ed. by Sidney J. H. Herrtage, contrib. by Frederic Madden
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images (some copies may be reprints) at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Gesta Romanorum: or, Entertaining Stories Invented by the Monks as a Fire-Side Recreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses From the Pulpit (2 volumes; London: J.C. Hotten, ca. 1871), ed. by Thomas Wright, trans. by Charles Swan
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Record of Auncient Histories, Entituled in Latin Gesta Romanorum: Discoursing Upon Sundry Examples for the Advancement of Vertue, and the Abandoning of Vice, No Lesse Pleasant in Reading, Then Profitable in Practise (London: T. Est, 1595), ed. by Richard Robinson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Gesta Romanorum, entertaining moral stories (G. Routledge;, 1905), by Charles Swan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Evenings with the old story tellers; select tales from the Gesta Romanorum, etc. (E. Lumley, 1844), by G. B. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales from the Gesta Romanorum, trans. by Charles Swan (Gutenberg ebook)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria Nova Across Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Marjorie Curry Woods (PDF at Ohio State)
• Altera colloquia latina, adapted from Erasmus (University Press, 1908), by Desiderius Erasmus and G. M. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• L'Ystoire de Eurialus et Lucresse, vrays amoureux, selon pape Pie (in French), by Pope Pius II, trans. by Octavien de Saint-Gelais (Gutenberg ebook)

• Storia di due amanti di Enea Silvio Piccolomini in seguito papa Pio Secondo (Tip. elvetica, 1832), by Pope Pius II and Alessandro Bracci (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historye rzymskie rozmaite z rożnych dźieiow (Nakł. Akademii Umiejętności, 1894), by Jan Bystroń and Jan Bystroń (page images at HathiTrust)

• Diálogos de Juan Luis Vives (Viuda de Barco Lopez, 1817), by Juan Luis Vives and Cristóbal Coret y Peris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diálogos de Juan Luis Vives (Salvador Faulì, 1768), by Juan Luis Vives and Cristóbal Coret y Peris (page images at HathiTrust)

• Survivals in Old Norwegian of medieval English, French, and German literature, together with the Latin versions of the heroic legend of Walter of Aquitaine (Waverly Press, 1941), by Francis Peabody Magoun and H. M. Smyser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Cambridge book of prose and verse in illustration of English literature; from the beginnings to the cycles of romance (The University press, 1924), by George Sampson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum (EETS extra series #33; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1879), ed. by Sidney J. H. Herrtage, contrib. by Frederic Madden
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images (some copies may be reprints) at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Gesta Romanorum: or, Entertaining Stories Invented by the Monks as a Fire-Side Recreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses From the Pulpit (2 volumes; London: J.C. Hotten, ca. 1871), ed. by Thomas Wright, trans. by Charles Swan
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: 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)
• A Record of Auncient Histories, Entituled in Latin Gesta Romanorum: Discoursing Upon Sundry Examples for the Advancement of Vertue, and the Abandoning of Vice, No Lesse Pleasant in Reading, Then Profitable in Practise (London: T. Est, 1595), ed. by Richard Robinson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An Alphabet of Tales: An English 15th Century Translation of the Alphabetum Narrationum (HTML at Michigan)
• Gesta Romanorum, entertaining moral stories (G. Routledge;, 1905), by Charles Swan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Evenings with the old story tellers; select tales from the Gesta Romanorum, etc. (E. Lumley, 1844), by G. B. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select tales from the Gesta Romanorum. Translated from the Latin with preliminary observations and notes (G. P. Putnam's, 1887), by Charles Swan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales from the Gesta Romanorum, trans. by Charles Swan (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Fire of Love and The Mending of Life, by Richard Rolle, trans. by Richard Misyn (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Devotions of Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury (Loome Booksellers & Ignatius Press, 2002), by Saint Anselm and Clement Charles Julian Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Tudor school-boy life: the dialogues of Juan Luis Vives, by Juan Luis Vives, trans. by Foster Watson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Petrarch's Secret; or, the Soul's Conflict with Passion: Three Dialogues Between Himself and S. Augustine, by Francesco Petrarca, trans. by William H. Draper (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Modest Meane to Mariage: pleasauntly set foorth by that famous Clarke Erasmus Roterodamus, and translated into Englishe by N.L., by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by Nicholas Leigh (Gutenberg ebook)
• One dialogue, or Colloquye of Erasmus (entituled Diuersoria): Translated oute of Latten into Englyshe: And Imprinted, to the ende that the Judgement of the Learned maye be hadde before the Translator procede in the reste., by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by Edward Hake (Gutenberg ebook)

• Colloquia. English. Selections (London : Printed [by Valentine Simmes] for Nicholas Ling, and are to bee sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-streete, 1606), by Desiderius Erasmus and William Burton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Latin poems of the Renaissance (Egoist, Ltd., 1919), by Richard Aldington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Romanesque lyric : studies in its background and development from Petronius to the Cambridge songs, 50-1050 (Barnes & Noble, 1969), by Philip Schuyler Allen and Howard Mumford Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ruodlieb, the earliest courtly novel, after 1050 (University of North Carolina Press, 1959) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Translations of the Oxford Latin prize poems. First series. (A. J. Valpy, 1831), by Nicholas Lee Torré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Translations of the Oxford and Cambridge Latin prize poems. (Longman, 1833), by Nicholas Lee Torre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great hymns of the middle ages, compiled by Eveline Warner Brainerd. (The Century co., 1909), by Eveline Warner Brainerd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Grobianus (Printed by T. Cooper ..., 1739), by Friedrich Dedekind and Roger Bull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Translations of the Oxford and Cambridge Latin prize poems. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, 1833), by University of Cambridge and University of Oxford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Political Songs of England: From the Reign of John to That of Edward II, ed. by Thomas Wright (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Complaint of Nature, by Alanus de Insulis, trans. by Douglas Maxwell Moffat (HTML with commentary at Fordham)

• The Political Songs of England: From the Reign of John to That of Edward II, ed. by Thomas Wright (Gutenberg ebook)

• Seven wise masters. (The Villon society, 1885), by George Laurence Gomme, Wynkyn de Worde, Villon Society, and London Villon Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of the Seven Wise Masters of Rome, ed. by George Laurence Gomme and Henry B. Wheatley (Gutenberg ebook)

• Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame (from a facsimile of the 1592 edition; covers about half the Italian text), by Francesco Colonna, trans. by Robert Dallington
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. (D. Nutt, 1890), by Francesco Colonna, Andrew Lang, R. D., Robert Dallington, and Robert Dallington (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Morall Philosophie of Doni, Drawne Out of the Auncient Writers (aka the Fables of Bidpai, based on the Panchatantra; London: H. Denham, ca. 1570), ed. by Anton Francesco Doni, trans. by Thomas North (HML at EEBO TCP)

• Fables Ancient And Modern Translated Into Verse From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, With Orginal Poems, by Mr. Dryden (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1700), by John Dryden, contrib. by Homer, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• The Fables of Aesop, As First Printed by William Caxton in 1484, With Those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio (2 volumes; London: D. Nutt, 1889), by Aesop, ed. by Joseph Jacobs, trans. by William Caxton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio (D. Nutt, 1889), by Joseph Jacobs, William Caxton, and Aesop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables of Aesop and others (S. Probasco, 1831), by Aesop and Samuel Croxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fables of Æsop, and Others: With Designs on Wood, by Aesop, illust. by Thomas Bewick (Gutenberg ebook)

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