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HUM 497: Milton's Paradise Lost: Rare Books

Literary Sources for Shakespeare

The whole works of Homer, prince of poetts : in his Iliads, and Odysses / translated according to the Greeke, by Geo. Chapman ... [1616?]

LIVY. The Romane Historie Written by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a Chronologie to the whole Historie: and the Topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke. London, Printed by Adam Islip, 1600.

Second Folio 1632

Includes one of Milton's earliest poems: On Shakespear

Frances Bacon

Robert Burton

Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland

The Holinshed Project

"A parallel text edition of the two versions of the Chronicles published in 1577 and 1587, which enables all interested in the Chronicles to make comparisons between the two texts." (Oxford University)

Francesco Guicciardini

Willamette University

Willamette University Libraries

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Salem Oregon 97301
Pacific Northwest College of Art Library
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Portland Oregon 97209