Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

His most notable work was his Decem Libri Historiarum or Ten Books of Histories, better known as the Historia Francorum (" History of the Franks "), a title given to it by later chroniclers, but he is also known for his credulous accounts of the miracles of saints, especially four books of the miracles of Martin of Tours.

** Libri auspiciorum (" books of auspices ", also known as Auguralia )

Author of Matheseos Libri Octo (" Eight Books of Astrology ", c. 330 ) and De errore profanarum religionum (" On the error of profane religions ").

* Johannes Trithemius, Polygraphiae Libri Sex (" Six Books on Polygraphy "), 1518, first printed book on cryptography ( thought to really be about magic by some observers at the time )

During the second half of his life, Palladio published many books, above all, I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura (" The four books of architecture ", Venice, 1570 ).

In addition to various works on Roman history and government, several of which have been reprinted, he also translated Alberico Gentili's Hispanicae Advocationis Libri Dvo (" Two Books of Advocacy in the Service of Spain ").

His book, Opticorum Libri Sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles ( Six Books of Optics, useful for philosophers and mathematicians alike ), published in Antwerp in 1613, was illustrated by famous painter Peter Paul Rubens.

He wrote a total of three books, of which his most important is his Seven Books of History Against the Pagans ( Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII ).

It is an account of the ' actions ' or workings undertaken in the Liber Logaeth, titled the Mysteriorum Libri Quinque ( Five Books of Mystery ( or Mystical Exercises ).

The Mysteriorum Libri Quinque is the diary for 22 December 1581 – 23 May 1583 inclusive: the first five Books of the Mysteries ( and Appendix ), ending where Causubon's A True and Faithful Relation begins.

Three years later Thomas handed the duke a magnum opus, the manuscript of De Etruria Regali Libri Septem, " Seven Books about Royal Etruria ", in the Latin language, the first detailed study of every aspect of Etruscan civilization, considered a brilliant work.

The Sibylline Books or Libri Sibyllini were a collection of oracular utterances, set out in Greek hexameters, purchased from a sibyl by the last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, and consulted at momentous crises through the history of the Republic and the Empire.

The front page of I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura ( The Four Books of Architecture )

One factor in the spread of his influence was the publication in 1570 of his architectural treatise, I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura ( The Four Books of Architecture ), which set out rules others could follow.

The Four Books of Sentences ( Libri Quattuor Sententiarum ) is a book of theology written by Peter Lombard in the twelfth century.

The most well-known Karaite polemic is Yiṣḥaq ben Avraham of Troki's Ḥizzuq Emunah ( חזוק אמונה ) ( Faith Strengthened ), a comprehensive Counter-Missionary polemic, which was later translated into Latin by Wagenseil as part of a larger collection of Jewish anti-Christian polemics entitled Tela Ignea Satanæ, sive Arcani et Horribiles Judæorum Adversus Christum, Deum, et Christianam Religionem Libri ( Altdorf, 1681 ) ( translation: ' The Fiery Darts of Satan, or the Arcane and Horrible Books of the Jews Against Christ, God, and the Christian Religion ').

Palladio's design for a Basilica as it appeared drawn by Leoni, in his translation of I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura | The Architecture of Palladio in Four Books ( 3rd.

Between 1716 and 1720 he published in installments the first complete English language edition of Palladio's I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura, which Leoni entitled The Architecture of A. Palladio, in Four Books.

* Gregory of Tours, Decem Libri Historiarum ( Ten Books of Histories, better known as the Historia Francorum ).

In one long-standing view of Antias ' influence on Livy, the latter relied mainly on the former in Books 1-10 of Ab Urbe Condita Libri, the legendary history of Rome.

The full title is Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinae professoris, de Humani corporis fabrica Libri septem ( Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, professor at the school of medicine at Padua, on the fabric of the Human body in seven Books ).

# Epigrammatum Ioannis Owen … Libri Tres, London, 1612 ( the first two Books dedicated to Henry, Prince of Wales, the third Book dedicated to Charles, Duke of York )

The most significant of the architectural works were: Vincenzo Scamozzi's L ’ Idea dell ’ Architettura Universale ; Sebastiano Serlio's Sette Libri d ' Architettura ; Domenico Fontana's Della transportatione dell ' obelisco Vaticano e delle fabriche di Sisto V ; Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus ; Giacomo Leoni's The Architecture of A. Palladio, in Four Books ; William Kent's The Designs of Inigo Jones and Robert Wood's The ruins of Palmyra.

All of the manuscripts ( except one ) of the first ten books ( first decade ) of Ab Urbe Condita Libri, which were copied through the Middle Ages and were used in the first printed editions, are derived from a single recension commissioned by Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, consul, 391 AD.

Again, in the inventories in the catalogues, such notes as these may be met with: " Sunt et duo cursinarii et tres benedictionales Libri ; ex his unus habet obsequium mortuorum et unus Breviarius ", or, " Præter Breviarium quoddam quod usque ad festivitatem S. Joannis Baptistæ retinebunt ", etc.

His Commentary on the Libri Feudorum, a twelfth century compilation of feudal law provisions, is considered to be one of the best of his works.

Telesio writes in the beginning of the Proem of the first book of the third edition of De Rerum Natura Iuxta Propria Principia Libri Ix ... " That the construction of the world and the magnitude of the bodies contained within it, and the nature of the world, is to be searched for not by reason as was done by the ancients, but is to be understood by means of observation.

In the book Medicina Libri octo, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, influenced by Hippocrates writes, " Much more often, however, some other part is to be rubbed than that which is the seat of the pain ; and especially when we want to withdraw material from the head or trunk, and therefore rub the arms and legs.

This policy, which came to be called Iconoclasm, was rejected by the West with the exception of Emperor Charlemagne, who commissioned the Libri Carolini which affirmed a condemnation of the veneration of icons.

To this period while Aquinas was Regent master at the studium of Santa Sabina can be attributed an impressive list of other works including the Catena aurea in Marcum, the De rationibus fidei, the Catena aurea in Lucam, the Quaestiones disputate de potentia Dei, which convey the contents of disputations Aquinas held during this period at Santa Sabina, the Quaestiones disputate de anima, which were held at Santa Sabina during the academic year 1265-66, Expositio et lectura super epistolas Pauli Apostoli, the Compendium theologiae, the Responsio de 108 articulis, part of the Quaestiones disputatae de malo, the Catena aurea in Ioannem, the De regno ad regem Cypri, the Quaestiones disputatae de spiritualibus creaturis, and at least the first book of the Sententia Libri De anima, Aquinas ' commentary on Aristotle's De anima, the translation of which from the Greek was completed by Aquinas ' Dominican associate at Viterbo William of Moerbeke in 1267.

It is the only existing work of colonial academic architecture that was principally designed from a plate in Andrea Palladio ’ s Quattro Libri. The house was designed by the architect William Buckland in 1773 – 74 for wealthy farmer Matthias Hammond of Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

In 1570, Conrad Heresbach, in Rei Rusticae Libri Quatuor, referred to " the Mastie that keepeth the house ".

His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.

Res Gestae ( Rerum gestarum Libri XXXI ) was originally in thirty-one books, but the first thirteen are lost ( modern historian T. D.

* Rerum Patriae, seu Historiae Mediolanensis, Libri IV ( Milan, 1625 ) a history of Milan, written in 1504-05.

* M. Annaei Lucani, Belli Ciuilis, Libri Decem: editorum in usum edidit ( 1926 ; 2nd ed.

The Libri Haruspicini dealt with divination from the entrails of the sacrificed animal, while the Libri Fulgurales expounded the art of divination by observing lightning.

A third set, the Libri Rituales, might have provided a key to Etruscan civilization: its wider scope embraced Etruscan standards of social and political life as well as ritual practices.

* Ammianus Marcellinus: Res Gestae Libri XXXI.

* Libri simplicis et compositae medicinae.

Alberti wrote I Libri della famiglia — which discussed education, marriage, household management, and money — in the Tuscan dialect.

* The Divine Institutes ( Divinarum Institutionum Libri VII ), written between 303 and 311.

* Hermetic. com: The Libri of Aleister Crowley

His Decem Libri Historiarum is a primary source for the reigns of the sons of Clotaire II and their descendants until Gregory's own death in 594.

He also had his theologians, including Theodulf of Orleans, compose the more comprehensive Libri Carolini.

In 794, a synod held at Frankfurt in 794 discussed the issue but refused to receive the Libri and content itself with condemning extreme forms of veneration of icons.

The chief work of Severus is the Chronicle ( Chronica, Chronicorum Libri duo or Historia sacra, c. 403 ), a summary of sacred history from the beginning of the world to his own times, with the omission of the events recorded in the Gospels and the Acts, " lest the form of his brief work should detract from the honour due to those events ".

* Libri duo ad Nationes.

In the early days of his conversion he wrote an Epistola ad Donatum de gratia Dei and the Testimoniorum Libri III that adhere closely to the models of Tertullian, who influenced his style and thinking.

* Andrea Palladio publishes I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura in Venice.