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• Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)

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• Maistre Charles Fontaine, Parisien (Harvard Studies in Romance Languages v2; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1916), by Richmond Laurin Hawkins (multiple formats at archive.org)

• French Lyrics (with extensive English notes), ed. by Arthur Graves Canfield (Gutenberg text)

• The Knot of Artifice: A Poetic of the French Lyric in the Early 17th Century (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by David Lee Rubin (PDF at Ohio State)

• Word and Figure: The Language of Nineteenth-Century French Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by Carol de Dobay Rifelj (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mallarmé Devant Ses Contemporains, 1875-1899 (in French; Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2011), ed. by Peter Sutherland Hambly (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• French Poetry and Modern Industry, 1830-1870: A Study of the Treatment of Industry and Mechanical Power in French Poetry During the Reigns of Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III (Harvard Studies in Romance Languages v6; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927), by Elliott Mansfield Grant (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eschatological Subjects: Divine and Literary Judgment in Fourteenth-Century French Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by J. M. Moreau (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Idea of Poetry in France, From Houdar de la Motte to Baudelaire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958), by Margaret Gilman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Structural Arithmetic Metaphor in the Oxford "Roland" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Eleanor Webster Bulatkin (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Sylvia Huot (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Eschatological Subjects: Divine and Literary Judgment in Fourteenth-Century French Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by J. M. Moreau (PDF at Ohio State)
• Weaving Narrative: Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009), by Monica L. Wright (PDF at PSU)
• From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Sylvia Huot (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by E. Jane Burns (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Ailleurs (French-language literary journal, 1963-1966) (full serial archives)
• Poesia (Futurist poetical magazine in Italian and French, issues online for 1905-1909 and 1920) (partial serial archives)

• From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Sylvia Huot (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Oysters, Nightingales and Cooking Pots: Selected Poetry and Prose in Translation (Heslington, UK: White Rose University Press, c2018), by Tristan Corbière, ed. by Richard Hibbitt and Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe, trans. by Christopher Pilling (multiple formats with commentary at White Rose University press)
• The Book of French Songs, Translated by John Oxenford, Esq.; To Which is Added Miss Costello's Early French Poetry (New York: Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, ca. 1872), trans. by John Oxenford and Louisa Stuart Costello (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Song of Roland, trans. by Jessie Crosland (PDF at In Parentheses)
• The Song of Roland, trans. by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• The Song of Roland, trans. by John O'Hagan
  • HTML at Fordham
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Song of Roland, Translated Into English Verse (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1913), trans. by Arthur S. Way
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Lais of Marie de France: A Verse Translation (selection of eight of the twelve), by Marie de France, ed. by Judith P. Shoaf (PDF files with commentary at ufl.edu)

• The Book of the Duke of True Lovers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1908), by Christine de Pisan, ed. by Alice Kemp-Welch, trans. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Oxford reprint: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Hymnen an das Leben (in German; Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, ca. 1912), by Emile Verhaeren, trans. by Stefan Zweig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Recherches sur les Rapports des Chansons des Geste et de L'Épopée Chevaleresque Italienne, Avec Textes Inédits (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve Frères et Ch. Leclerc, 1887), by Ferdinand Castets
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some material missing
• Ami and Amile: A Medieval Tale of Friendship (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c1996), trans. by Samuel N. Rosenberg and Samuel Danon, contrib. by David Konstan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aliscans: Chanson de Geste, Pub. d'Après le Manuscrit de la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal et à l'Aide de Cinq Autres Manuscrits (in French; Paris: A. Franck, 1870), ed. by F. Guessard and Anatole de Montaiglon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Légendes Populaires et Chansons de Geste en Savoie (in French; Paris: Bureaux de la Revue des Idées, 1910), by Arnold van Gennep (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Renaud of Montauban (London: G. Allen, 1897), ed. by Robert Steele, contrib. by William Caxton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Ami and Amile: A Medieval Tale of Friendship (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c1996), trans. by Samuel N. Rosenberg and Samuel Danon, contrib. by David Konstan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chroniques Parisiennes; Ennuis Non Rimés (in French; Paris: La Connaissance, 1920), by Jules Laforgue, ed. by André Malraux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Nursery Friends From France (Chicago and Toronto: The Book House for Children, c1927), trans. by Olive Beaupré Miller, illust. by Maud Petersham and Miska Petersham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes (in French; Paris: Société d'Éditions Littéraires et Artistiques, 1900), by Natalie Clifford Barney, illust. by Carolus-Duran and Alice Pike Barney
  • scribbed-in reprint: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • scribbled-in reprint (different copy from above): page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Critical Prefaces of the French Renaissance (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1950), by Bernard Weinberg (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Annales Ecclesiastici (37 volumes in Latin; Barri-Ducis et al., 1864-1883), by Cesare Baronio, Odorico Rinaldi, Giacomo Laderchi, and Augustin Theiner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice: Coins and Moneys of Account (this volume originally published 1985 (second volume published under a different title); open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Frederic Chapin Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries, by Albrecht Dürer, trans. by Rudolf Tombo (Gutenberg text)

• Zelotti's Epic Frescoes at Cataio: The Obizzi Saga (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), by Irma B. Jaffe, contrib. by Gernando Colombardo (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances de los Señores de la Nueva España (in Nahuatl and English; Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009), trans. by John Bierhorst (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Arcadia: Secondo i Manoscritti e Le Prime Stampe (in Italian; Turin et al.: E. Loecher, 1888), by Jacopo Sannazaro, ed. by Michele Scherillo
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Faithful Unto Death: An Account of the Sufferings of the English Franciscans During the 16th and 17th Centuries, From Contemporary Records (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1892), by J. M. Stone, contrib. by John Morris (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Group Portraiture of Holland (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1999), by Alois Riegl, trans. by Evelyn Kain and David Britt, contrib. by Wolfgang Kemp (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Elizabethan Homilies 1623, ed. by Ian Lancashire (HTML at Toronto)
• The Arraignment and Conviction of Usurie (London, 1595), by Miles Mosse (page images at Penn)
• A Swete and Devoute Sermon of Holy Saynt Ciprian of Mortalitie of Man; The Rules of a Christian Lyfe Made by Picus Erle of Mirandula: Bothe Translated Into Englyshe by Syr Thomas Elyot, Knyghte (London: T. Bertheleti, 1534), by Saint Cyprian and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, trans. by Thomas Elyot (at name.umdl.umich.edu)
• This Treatyse Concernynge the Fruytfull Saynges of David the Kynge and Prophete in the Seven Penytencyall Psalmes: Devyded in Seven Sermons (London: W. de Worde, 1509), by John Fisher (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Passional Christi und Antichristi (in German; woodcuts sometimes attributed to Hans and sometimes to Lucas Cranach; 1521), by Martin Luther, contrib. by Philip Melanchthon and Johann Schwertfeger, illust. by Hans Cranach and Lucas Cranach (page images at HathiTrust)

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