ill-advised: Contents

[N.B. Although this post is originally from February 2006, it isn't out of date — I always update it when I add new posts to the blog.]

History — Ancient

L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine C. de Camp, Citadels of Mystery [1, 2]
Biondo Flavio, Rome in Triumph (Vol. 1)
Tom Holland, Rubicon
Martijn Icks, The Crimes of Elagabalus
Bartolomeo Platina, Lives of the Popes (Vol. 1)
Andrew Robinson, Lost Languages

History — Medieval

Pietro Bembo, History of Venice (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3)
Leonardo Bruni, History of the Florentine People (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3)
John Mandeville, The Book of John Mandeville
Kirsten Seaver, The Frozen Echo
Kirsten Seaver, Maps, Myths, and Men [1, 2]
R. A. Skelton et al., The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation

History — WW1

James W. Gerard, Face to Face with Kaiserism
David Fromkin, Europe's Last Summer
Gordon Martel, The Month that Changed the World
Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, War Land on the Eastern Front [1, 2]
Robert K. Massie, Castles of Steel
Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston
John W. Wheeler-Bennett, Brest-Litovsk: The Forgotten Peace, March 1918 [1, 2, 3]

History — WW2 — Memoirs and Contemporary Accounts

Birger Dahlerus, The Last Attempt
Sven Hedin, German Diary [1, 2]
Joachim Joesten, Rats in the Larder
Joachim Joesten, Stalwart Sweden
Sándor Márai, Memoir of Hungary, 1944–1948 [1, 2, 3]
Ernest R. Pope, Munich Playground
Curt Riess, Total Espionage
Howard K. Smith, Last Train from Berlin
Albert Speer, The Slave State
Lothrop Stoddard, Into the Darkness

History — WW2 — Modern Studies

Alex Abella, Scott Gordon, Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States
Antony Beevor, Berlin: The Downfall 1945
Perry Biddiscombe, Werwolf!
Richard Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich
Christopher Hale, Himmler's Crusade
Tomaz Jardim, Ilse Koch on Trial
David Clay Large, Where Ghosts Walked [1, 2]
Gitta Sereny, The German Trauma
Volker Ullrich, Hitler: A Biography. Vol. 1: Ascent
Volker Ullrich, Hitler: A Biography. Vol. 2: Downfall
Stephen Walker, Shockwave

History — Other

David Cannadine, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
Saul David, The Indian Mutiny
Patrick French, Liberty or Death
John Keay, The Honourable Company
John Keay, India
John Keay, Last Post
Karen Liebreich, Fallen Order
Jan Morris, Heaven's Command, Pax Britannica, Farewell the Trumpets

Poetry

Ludovico Ariosto, Latin Poetry
Antonio Beccadelli, The Hermaphrodite
Pietro Bembo, Lyric Poetry. Etna
Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book
Geoffrey Chaucer, Legenda o dobrih ženah
Francesco Filelfo, Odes
Lionel Johnson, Incurable
John Keats, Works
Cristoforo Landino, Poems
Michelle Lovric, The Sweetness of Honey and the Sting of Bees
Giovanni Marrasio, Angelinetum and Other Poems
Angelo Poliziano, Silvae
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, Baiae
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, On Married Love. Eridanus
Jacopo Sannazaro, Latin Poetry
Maffeo Vegio, Short Epics [1, 2]
Marco Girolamo Vida, Christiad
Oscar Wilde, Poems and Poems in Prose

Fiction

Tash Aw, The Harmony Silk Factory
William Beckford, Vathek
Max Beerbohm, The Illustrated Zuleika Dobson
J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
Patricia Duncker, Seven Tales of Sex and Death
G. R. Elford, Devil's Guard [1, 2]
Guy Endore, The Werewolf of Paris
Teofilo Folengo, Baldo
William Golding, The Scorpion God, Clonk Clonk, Envoy Extraordinary
N. V. Gogolj, Večeri na pristavi
Robert van Gulik (tr.), Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee
Robert Harris, Fatherland
John James, Votan, Not for All the Gold in Ireland, Men Went to Cattraeth
Josip Kalinikov, Ženske in menihi
Nikos Kazantzakis, Freedom and Death [1, 2, 3, 4]
D. H. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence in Italy: Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia, Etruscan Places
Matthew Lewis, The Monk
Sophia McDougall, Romanitas
Arthur Machen, The House of Souls
Arthur Machen, The Hill of Dreams
George Mackay Brown, Hawkfall and Other Stories
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Sophia McDougall, Rome Burning
Nancy Mitford, The Blessing
Eça de Queiroz, The Relic
Eça de Queiroz, The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers
Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
Yuri Tynianov, Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar
Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge
Gore Vidal, Myron
Kassandra Vivaria, Via Lucis
Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh, Helena

Nonfiction — other

Brian Bates, The Real Middle-earth
Edwin Black, War Against the Weak
Giovanni Boccaccio, Genealogy of the Pagan Gods (Vol. 1, Vol. 2)
David Crystal, Spell It Out
Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow
Jared Diamond, Collapse
Minoo Dinshaw, Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman
Percy Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett
Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure
Sándor Márai, Memoir of Hungary, 1944–1948 [1, 2, 3]
Angus Mitchell (ed.), The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement
Mark Pilkington (ed.), Strange Attractor Journal One [1, 2]
Angelo Poliziano, Letters
Richard Rhodes, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Bertrand Russell, Autobiography [1, 2, 3]
Bartolomeo Scala, Essays and Dialogues
Charles Seife, Alpha and Omega
Peter Singleton-Gates, Maurice Girodias, Black Diaries [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
L. Sprague de Camp, The Ragged Edge of Science [1, 2]
Kory Stamper, Word by Word
Freya Stark, The Valleys of the Assassins
Colin Turnbull, The Mountain People
Stephen Walker, Shockwave
A. E. Waite, Devil-Worship in France
Evelyn Waugh, A Tourist in Africa
Evelyn Waugh, Ninety-Two Days
J. S. Weiner, The Piltdown Forgery
Neil L. Whitehead, Dark Shamans
Oscar Wilde, Criticism
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman
Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything
Philippe Wolff, Western Languages

I Tatti Renaissance Library

[1] Giovanni Boccaccio, Famous Women
[2] Marsilio Ficino, Platonic Theology (Vol. 1)
[3] Leonardo Bruni, History of the Florentine People (Vol. 1)
[4] Marsilio Ficino, Platonic Theology (Vol. 2)
[5] Craig W. Kallendorf (ed.), Humanist Educational Treatises
[6] Polydore Vergil, On Discovery [1, 2]
[7] Marsilio Ficino, Platonic Theology (Vol. 3)
[8] Leon Battista Alberti, Momus
[9] Giannozzo Manetti, Biographical Writings
[10] Cyriac of Ancona, Later Travels
[11] Francesco Petrarca, Invectives
[12] Pius II, Commentaries (Vol. 1)
[13] Marsilio Ficino, Platonic Theology (Vol. 4)
[14] Angelo Poliziano, Silvae
[15] Maffeo Vegio, Short Epics [1, 2]
[16] Leonardo Bruni, History of the Florentine People (Vol. 2)
[17] Marsilio Ficino, Platonic Theology (Vol. 5)
[18] Pietro Bembo, Lyric Poetry. Etna
[19] Gary Grund (ed.), Humanist Comedies [1, 2]
[20] Biondo Flavio, Italy Illuminated (Vol. 1)
[21] Angelo Poliziano, Letters
[22] Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, Baiae
[23] Marsilio Ficino, Platonic Theology (Vol. 6)
[24] Lorenzo Valla, On the Donation of Constantine
[25] Teofilo Folengo, Baldo (Vol. 1)
[26] JoAnn DellaNeva (ed.), Ciceronian Controversies
[27] Leonardo Bruni, History of the Florentine People (Vol. 3)
[28] Pietro Bembo, History of Venice (Vol. 1)
[29] Pius II, Commentaries (Vol. 2)
[30] Bartolomeo Platina, Lives of the Popes (Vol. 1)
[31] Bartolomeo Scala, Essays and Dialogues
[32] Pietro Bembo, History of Venice (Vol. 2)
[33] Nicholas of Cusa, Writings on Church and Reform
[34] Marsilio Ficino, Commentaries on Plato (Vol. 1: Phaedrus and Ion)
[35] Cristoforo Landino, Poems
[36] Teofilo Folengo, Baldo (Vol. 2)
[37] Pietro Bembo, History of Venice (Vol. 3)
[38] Jacopo Sannazaro, Latin Poetry
[39] Marco Girolamo Vida, Christiad
[40] Aurelio Lippo Brandolini, Republics and Kingdoms Compared
[41] Francesco Filelfo, Odes
[42] Antonio Beccadelli, The Hermaphrodite
[43] Florentius de Faxolis, Book on Music
[44] Federico Borromeo, Sacred Painting. Museum
[45] Gary Grund (ed.), Humanist Tragedies
[46] Giovanni Boccaccio, Genealogy of the Pagan Gods (Vol. 1)
[47] Bartolomeo Fonzio, Letters to Friends
[48] Lilio Gregorio Giraldi, Modern Poets
[49] Lorenzo Valla, Dialectical Disputations (Vol. 1)
[50] Lorenzo Valla, Dialectical Disputations (Vol. 2)
[51] Marsilio Ficino, Commentaries on Plato (Vol. 2: Parmenides, Part 1)
[52] Marsilio Ficino, Commentaries on Plato (Vol. 2: Parmenides, Part 2)
[53] Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, Dialogues (Vol. 1)
[54] Michael Marullus, Poems
[55] Francesco Filelfo, On Exile
[56] Paolo Giovio, Notable Men and Women of Our Time
[57] Girolamo Fracastoro, Latin Poetry
[58] Jacopo Zabarella, On Methods (Vol. 1)
[59] Jacopo Zabarella, On Methods (Vol. 2)
[60] Lorenzo Valla, Correspondence
[61] Elizabeth R. Wright et al. (eds.), The Battle of Lepanto
[62] Coluccio Salutati, On the World and Religious Life
[63] Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, On Married Love. Eridanus
[64] Coluccio Salutati, Political Writings
[65] Cyriac of Ancona, Life and Early Travels
[66] Marsilio Ficino, On Dionysius the Areopagite (Vol. 1)
[67] Marsilio Ficino, On Dionysius the Areopagite (Vol. 2)
[68] Girolamo Savonarola, Apologetic Writings
[69] Ugolino Verino, Fiammetta. Paradise
[70] Aldus Manutius, The Greek Classics
[71] Giannozzo Manetti, A Translator's Defense
[72] Francesco Petrarca, My Secret Book
[73] Giovanni Marrasio, Angelinetum and Other Poems
[74] Biondo Flavio, Rome in Triumph (Vol. 1)
[75] Biondo Flavio, Italy Illuminated (Vol. 2)
[76] Francesco Petrarca, Selected Letters (Vol. 1)
[77] Francesco Petrarca, Selected Letters (Vol. 2)
[78] Aldus Manutius, Humanism and the Latin Classics
[79] Giannozzo Manetti, Against the Jews and the Gentiles
[80] Marsilio Ficino, Commentary on Plotinus (Vol. 4)
[81] Giovanni Boccaccio, Genealogy of the Pagan Gods (Vol. 2)
[82] Marsilio Ficino, Commentary on Plotinus (Vol. 5)
[83] Pius II, Commentaries (Vol. 3)
[84] Ludovico Ariosto, Latin Poetry
[85] Giannozzo Manetti, On Human Worth and Excellence
[86] Angelo Poliziano, Greek and Latin Poetry
[87] Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, The Virtues and Vices of Speech
[88] Pier Candido Decembrio, Lives of the Milanese Tyrants
[89] Angelo Poliziano, Miscellanies (Vol. 1)
[90] Angelo Poliziano, Miscellanies (Vol. 2)
[91] Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, Dialogues (Vol. 2)
[92] Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, Dialogues (Vol. 3)
[93] Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration
[94] Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, Eclogues. Garden of the Hesperides
[95] Paolo Giovio, Portraits of Learned Men
[96] Leon Battista Alberti, Biographical and Autobiographical Writings