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• Vergil in the Middle Ages (London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1895), by Domenico Comparetti, trans. by E. F. M. Benecke, contrib. by Robinson Ellis (page images at Google; US access only)

• The Bavarian Commentary and Ovid: Clm 4610, The Earliest Documented Commentary on the Metamorphoses (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by Robin Wahlsten Böckerman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

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• Catalogus Codicum Philologicorum Latinorum, Bibliothecae Palatinae Vindobonensis (in Latin; Vienna: F. Beck, 1836), ed. by Stephan Endlicher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bibliotheca Instituta et Collecta Primum a Conrado Gesnero (in Latin; Zurich: Apud C. Froschoverum, 1574), by Conrad Gessner, ed. by Konrad Lykosthenes and Josias Simmler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reflections of Romanity: Discourses of Subjectivity in Imperial Rome (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Richard Alston and Efrossini Spentzou (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Basil Dufallo (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fiction as History: Nero to Julian (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994), by G. W. Bowersock (HTML at UC Press)
• Fulgentius the Mythographer (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, ed. by Leslie George Whitbread
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Ohio State Press
• Pompey, His Friends, and the Literature of the First Century B. C. (University of California Publications in Classical Philology v19, n1: Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963), by William S. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reading Death in Ancient Rome (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Mario Erasmo (PDF at Ohio State)
• A History of Roman Literature From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius, by Charles Thomas Cruttwell (Gutenberg text)
• Introduction to Classical Latin Literature (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1904), by William Cranston Lawton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Latin Literature, by J. W. Mackail (Gutenberg text)

• Der Römische Mimus (in German; extracted from K. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna; 1854), by Karl Joseph Grysar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Christian Rite and Christian Drama in the Middle Ages: Essays in the Origin and Early History of Modern Drama (originally published 1965; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by O. B. Hardison (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Literature and Identity in The Golden Ass of Apuleius (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2012), by Luca Graverini, trans. by Benjamin Todd Lee (PDF at Ohio State)
• Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius: A Study of Allusion in the Novel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Ellen D. Finkelpearl (page images at HathiTrust)

• Le Fonti Delle Enciclopedie Latine Del XII Secolo: Saggio Critico (first and only volume published of Primi Studi Sulle Enciclopedie Medioevali, in Italian; Modena: A. Namias, 1897), by Luigi Mario Capelli
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Lucian and the Latins: Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by David Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• The Wandering Scholars (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927), by Helen Waddell (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Sketch of the Lives and Writings of Dante and Petrarch; With Some Account of Italian and Latin Literature in the Fourteenth Century (London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1790), by Thomas Penrose
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Étude sur la Poésie Funéraire Romaine d'Après les Inscriptions (in French; Paris: Hachette, 1922), by Édouard Galletier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal, by Harold Edgeworth Butler (Gutenberg text)
• Zur Sprache der Lateinischen Erotik (in German; Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1912), by Richard Reitzenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cicero und die Altrömischen Dichter: eine Literarhistorische Untersuchung (in German; Würzburg: F. Staudenraus, 1911), by Wilhelm Zillinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs: The Liber Peristephanon of Prudentius (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1993), by Michael Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ovids Schule der "Elegischen" Liebe: Erotodidaxe und Psychagogie in der Ars Amatoria (in German; Frankfurt am Main et al: P. Lang, c1998), by Jula Wildberger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Christine G. Perkell (HTML at UC Press)
• Commentarius in M. Manilii Astronomica (in Latin; 1921), by Jacobus van Wageningen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vergil in the Middle Ages (London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1895), by Domenico Comparetti, trans. by E. F. M. Benecke, contrib. by Robinson Ellis (page images at Google; US access only)

• Latin Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), ed. by Genevieve Liveley and Patricia B. Salzman-Mitchell (PDF at Ohio State)
• Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Jeri Blair Debrohun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Politics of Desire: Propertius IV (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Micaela Wakil Janan (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome: Readings in Propertius and His Genre (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by W. R. Johnson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Catullus in Verona: A Reading of the Elegiac Libellus, Poems 65-116 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2003), by Marilyn B. Skinner (PDF at Ohio State)

• Fama and Fiction in Vergil's Aeneid (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Antonia Jane Reobone Syson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299: Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays (main text in Latin; commentary in English; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2012), by Virgil, ed. by Ingo Gildenhard
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • multiple formats at Google
• Virgil's Epic Technique (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Richard Heinze, trans. by Hazel Mary Harvey, David Harvey, and Fred Robertson, contrib. by Antonie Wlosok (HTML at UC Press)
• Virgile et les Origines d'Ostie (in French; Paris: E. de Boccard, 1919), by Jérôme Carcopino (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vergil in the Middle Ages (London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1895), by Domenico Comparetti, trans. by E. F. M. Benecke, contrib. by Robinson Ellis (page images at Google; US access only)

• Cato the Censor and the Beginnings of Latin Prose: From Poetic Translation to Elite Transcription (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Enrica Sciarrino (PDF at Ohio State)

• Atene e Roma (in Italian) (partial serial archives)
• Eranos (partial serial archives)

• Queen Elizabeth's Englishings of Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, A.D. 1593; Plutarch, De Curiositate; Horace, De Arte Poetica (Part), A.D. 1598 (EETS original series #113; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1899), ed. by Caroline Pemberton, trans. by Queen Elizabeth I of England, contrib. by Boethius, Plutarch, and Horace (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Oeuvres Complètes d'Ausone (2 volumes, in Latin and French; Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1842-1843), by Decimus Magnus Ausonius, trans. by Étienne-François Corpet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anecdota Litteraria ex Mss. Codicibus Eruta (4 volumes in Latin; Rome: A. Fulgoni, 1773-1783), ed. by Giovanni Cristoforo Amaduzzi and Giovanni Lodovico Bianconi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Faictz Merveilleux de Virgille: Reimpression Textuello de l'Édition Sans Date, Publiée à Paris, Chez Guillaume Nyverd (in French; Geneva: J. Gay et fils, 1867), ed. by Gustave Brunet
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Carmina Latina Epigraphica (2 volumes in 1, in Latin; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1895-1897), ed. by Franz Buecheler
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Post Editam Collectionem Buechelerianam in Lucem Prolata (in Latin; 1912), ed. by Einar Engström (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Complete Works of John Gower (4 volumes, in French, English, and Latin; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1899-1902), by John Gower, ed. by G. C. Macaulay
  • Volume 1 (French works): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Confessio Amantis, Prologue - Lib. V 1970): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Confession Amantis, Lib. V 1971 - Liv. VIII; and In Praise of Peace): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Latin works): multiple formats at archive.org

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