Originals
N. Machiavelli: Istorie fiorentine. (to 1492). First ed. 1561-64. Numerous editions, and English translation by C. E. Detmold: The Historical, Political and Diplomatic Writings of N. Machiavelli. 4 vols. 1882.
Francesco Guicciardini: Storia fiorentina. (1378-1509). First published 1859. Istoria d’ Italia. (1492-1534). First edition 1561-64; numerous editions since, and English translation by G. Fenton: The historie of Guicciardini. 1599.
Benvenuto Cellini: Life, translated by R. H. H. Cust. 2 vols. 1910.
(The original text first correctly published by O. Bacci, 1901. Many
English translations).
Paulus Jovius: Historiarum sui temporis libri. xlv. (1493-1347). 1550-52.
Polydore Vergil: Anglicae Historiae libri. xxvii, (to 1538). First edition, to 1509, Basle, 1534; 2d ed. 1555. (I use the edition of 1570. The best criticism is in H. A. L. Fisher’s Political History of England 1485-1547, pp. 152 ff.)
Polydore Vergil: De rerum inventoribus libri octo. 1536. 2d ed., enlarged, 1557.
Caesar Baronius: Annales Ecclesiastici (to 1198). Rome. 1588-1607.
Ecclesiastica Historia... secundum centurias, a M. Flacio, et aliis. Magdeburg. 1559-74.
H. Bullinger: Reformationsgeschichte, hg. von J. J. Hottinger und H. H. Vögeli. 3 vols. 1838-40. (Index to this in preparation by W. Wuhrmann; Bullinger’s Correspondence will also soon appear).
Joan. Sleidani: De statu religionis et reipublicae, Carolo Quinto Caesare, commentariorum libri xxvi. 1555. (My edition, 1785, 3 vols., was owned formerly by I. Döllinger).
Joannis Cochlaei: Historia de Actis et scriptis M. Lutheri 1517-46.
Coloniae. 1549. (Critique in A. Herte’s dissertation, Die
Lutherbiographie des J. Cochlaeus. 1915).
J. Mathesius: Siebzehn Predigten von den Historien des Herrn Doctoris Martini Luthers. 1st ed. 1566; new ed. by Lösche. 1898.
Mémoires de Martin et de Guillaume du Bellay: (1513-52). 1st ed. 1569. Critical ed. by V. L. Bourrilly and Fleury Vindry, 1908 ff.
Blaise de Monluc: Commentaires (1521-76); 1st ed. 1592; critical ed. by P. Courtreault. 1911-14.
Oeuvres de P. de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantôme, ed. L. Lalanne. 11 vols. 1864 ff.
J. J. Scaliger: Opus novum de emendatione temporum. 1583, 1593.
Histoire ecclésiastique des églises françaises réformées. Pub. par Baum et Cunitz. 3 vols. 1883-9. (Attributed, with probability, to Beza; first published 1580).
Jean Bodin: Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem, 1566.
Peter Martyr d’ Anghiera: Opus epistolarum. 1530. (This rare edition at Harvard. The work is a history in the form of letters, partly fictitious, partly genuine. Cf. J. Bernays: Peter Martyr Anghierensis und sein Opus Epistolarum. 1891).
Ignatius de Loyola: Autobiography. Monumenta Societatis Jesu, ser. iv, tom. 1, 1904. English translation ed. by J. F. X. O’Connor. 1900.
George Buchanan: Rerum scoticarum historia. Edinburgh. 1582. (Cf. M. Meyer-Cohn: G. Buchanan als Publizist und Historiker Maria Stuarts. 1913).
John Knox: The History of the Reformation of Religion within the realm of Scotland. (First incomplete edition, 1586; critical complete edition by D. Laing, 1846, in vol. 1 of Knox’s Works. Cf. A. Lang: “Knox as Historian,” Scottish Historical Review, ii, 1905, pp. 113 ff).
John Foxe: Acts and Monuments of the Christian Martyrs. 1563. (The MS that I have compared with Fox is Harleian MS 419 of the British Museum, endorsed: “John Fox’s Collection of Letters and Papers on Theological Matters,” fol. 125).
Nicholas Sanders: De origine et progressu schismatis Anglicani. 1585.
Edward Hall: The Union of the Noble and Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York, 1542. Published as Hall’s Chronicle, 1809.
Raphael Holinshed: Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. Vol. 1, 1577.
John Stow: The Chronicles of England from Brute unto this present year of Christ 1580. Second edition, The Annals of England, 1592.