BEN JONSON'S BOOKSHELF

Aesop. Fables.

Aretino, Pietro. Il Marescolo (Italian play, 1534).

(perhaps) Aristophanes. Plutus.

Barlow, William. Magnetical Advertisements: or, Diverse Pertinent Observations (1616).

Barlow, William. The Navigator’s Supply (1597).

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Decamerone (collection of tales, 1471).

Cicero. Orationis in Catilinam.

Claudian. Magnes (Latin poem).

Contarini, Gasparo. De Magistratibus et Republica Venetorum. Trans. Samuel Lewkenor (1599).

Delrio, Martin. Disquisitiones Magicae (1599-1600).

Dio Cassius. Roman History.

(perhaps) Donne, John. 'The Progress of the Soul'. The First Anniversary (1612).

(perhaps) Erasmus, Desiderius. Colloquia (1518)

(perhaps) Gesner, Conrad. Historia Animalium (1603).

Gilbert, William. De Magnete (1600).

Horace. Sermones [i.e. Satires].

Juvenal. Saturae.

Laertius, Diogenes. De Philosophorum Vitis.

Libianus. Declamations.

Libianus. De Muliere Loquaci. Trans. Marellus (1597).

Lucan. De Bello Civili, a.k.a Pharsalia.

Lucian. Dialogues of the Dead.

Lucian. The Dream, or, Lucian’s Career.

Lucian. Lexiphanes.

(perhaps) Lucian. Timon, or, The Misanthrope.

(perhaps) Machiavelli, Niccolò. Novella Di Belfagor Arcidiavolo (1545).

(perhaps) Machiavelli, Niccolò. Clitia (1537).

Martial. Epigrammaton.

Nashe, Thomas. Piers Penniless his Supplication to the Devil (1592).

Persius. Saturae.

Petronius. Satyricon.

Plautus. Aulularia.

Plautus. Captivi.

(perhaps) Plautus. Casina.

Plautus. Mostellaria.

(perhaps) Rankins, William. Seven Satires Applied to the Week (1598).

Pliny the Elder. Naturalis Historia.

Reynard the Fox, The History of. Trans. William Caxton (1481).

Ridley, Mark. A Short Treatise of Magnetical Bodies and Motions (1613).

Salernitano, Masuccio. Il Novellino (1475).

Sallust. Bellum Catilinae.

Seneca. Ad Marciam de Consolatione.

Seneca. De Beneficiis.

Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night (perf. 1600).

Suetonius. De Vita Caesarum .

Tacitus. Annales.