| Preface to the Second Edition | ix |
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Introduction by Louis Brewer Hall |
xi |
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| Book 1 | 1 |
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| Introduction | 1 |
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| About Adam and Eve | 2 |
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| About Saturn: Time Consumes all Things | 6 |
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| About Cadmus, King of Thebes | 7 |
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| A Gathering of Unhappy Souls | 9 | ||
| About Jocasta, Queen of Thebes | 11 | ||
| Quarrel of Thyestes and Atreus | 15 | ||
| About Theseus, King of Athens | 18 | ||
| A Warning against Credulity | 22 | ||
| A Gathering of the Mournful | 24 | ||
| About Priam and Hecuba | 26 | ||
| Against the Proud | 30 | ||
| About Agamemnon, King of Mycenae | 31 | ||
| Poverty Applauded | 34 | ||
| About Samson | 35 | ||
| Against Women | 38 | ||
| Some More in Misery | 43 | ||
| Book 2 | 45 | ||
| A Short Introduction | 45 | ||
| Against the Presumptuous Pride of Kings | 45 | ||
| About Dido, Queen of Carthage | 48 | ||
| In Praise of Dido | 53 | ||
| About Sardanapalus, King of Assyria | 54 | ||
| Against Sardanapalus and His Ilk | 58 | ||
| A Few Thoughts about Dreams | 60 | ||
| An Invective against Deceit | 61 | ||
| Book 3 | 63 | ||
| Introduction | 63 | ||
| The Fight of Poverty and Fortune | 63 | ||
| About Tullus Hostilius and Tarquin the Elder | 68 | ||
| About Tarquin the Proud, His Son Sextus, and the Rape of Lucretia | 69 | ||
| Against the Prodigious Lust of Princes | 72 |
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| About Xerxes, King of the Persians | 76 | ||
| The Dark Blindness of Humanity | 80 | ||
| Some Unhappy People | 82 | ||
| About Appius Claudius, the Decemvir | 83 | ||
| Against Ignorant Lawyers | 88 | ||
| About Alcibiades, the Athenian | 90 | ||
| In Defense of Alcibiades | 94 | ||
| The Author Acquitted and Poetry Commended | 96 | ||
| Against Riches, the Frenzy of Many | 99 | ||
| Book 4 | 103 | ||
| Introduction | 103 | ||
| About Marcus Manlius Capitolinus | 103 | ||
| Against the Faithlessness of the Common People | 107 | ||
| About Alexander the Great and Callisthenes the Philosopher | 108 | ||
| Book 5 | 113 | ||
| About Marcus Atilius Regulus | 113 | ||
| Against Those Who Do not Love Their Country Enough | 117 | ||
| About Hannibal, King of Carthage | 120 | ||
| About Prusias, King of Bithynia | 125 | ||
| Book 6 | 127 | ||
| A Conversation between Fortune and the Author | 127 | ||
| About Gaius Marius from Arpinum | 133 | ||
| A Few Words about Nobility | 137 | ||
| About Pompey the Great | 138 | ||
| A Few Words of the Author’s | 144 | ||
| A Huge Wrangling Multitude | 145 | ||
| About Marcus Tullius Cicero | 148 | ||
| Against the Detractors of Rhetoric | 152 | ||
| A Number of Mourners | 156 | ||
| About Mark Antony the Triumvir and Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt | 157 | ||
| Book 7 | |||
| A Quarrel between Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, and Valeria Messalina | 163 | ||
| About Nero Claudius Caesar | 171 | ||
| Some Afflicted Celebrities | 179 | ||
| About Aulus Vitellius Caesar | 180 | ||
| Against Gluttony and Gourmands | 185 | ||
| Book 8 | 189 | ||
| The Renowned Francesco Petrarch and His Reproof of the Author | 189 | ||
| About Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra | 194 | ||
| About Odoacer the Ruthenian, King of Italy | 196 | ||
| On the Present State of the City of Rome | 199 | ||
| About Arthur, King of the Britons | 200 | ||
| Book 9 | 207 | ||
| About Brunhildis, Queen of the Franks | 207 | ||
| A Huge Crowd of Lamenters | 214 | ||
| About Walter, Duke of Athens | 216 | ||
| An Excuse by the Author for Philippa of Catania | 222 | ||
| About Philippa of Catania | 223 | ||
| A Last Few Mourners and the End of the Book | 228 | ||
Select Bibliography |
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| Primary | 231 | ||
| Secondary | 232 | ||
| Index | 237 | ||
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