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- 3. Author of Philobiblon and Bishop of Durham.
- 4. Author of De Consolatione Pilosophiae.
- 8. Italian humanist best known for his critique of the Donation of Constantine: De falso credita et ementita Constantini Donatione declamatio.
- 9. Roman author of De vitis Caesarum: a collection of biographies of Roman emperors.
- 11. Latin title of a pseudohistorical narrative of Britain's ancient rulers written by the 12th century monk Geoffrey of Monmouth.
- 13. Title of Titus Livius's history of Rome
- 14. Low-Countries' humanist, author of Moriae Encomium.
- 15. Title of Ovid's long 'epic' poem of transformed bodies.
- 18. Title of Isidore of Seville's encyclopaedia.
- 19. Renaissance humanist and pedagogue, author of De Institutione Feminae Christianae, dedicated to Catherine of Aragon.
- 20. German author of Horologium Sapientiae.
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- 1. Latin title of St Augustine's disquisition on the cosmic struggle between the Earthly City and the City of God.
- 2. Encyclopaedic work by Gaius Plinius Secundus.
- 5. Germanic officer who betrayed Pulius Quinctillius Varus to his death at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9AD).
- 6. Roman author of Factorum ac Dictorum memorabilium libri IX: a nine-book collection of memorable deeds and sayings.
- 7. Roman author of de Architectura: a disquisition on proper architectural practice.
- 10. Queen of the Palmyrene Empire who conquered most of the eastern Roman Empire in 270-271, ultimately defeated by the emperor Aurelian.
- 12. Thracian gladiator, who led a slave revolt against the Romans.
- 16. Literary form for which the Latin poet Martial was famous.
- 17. Title of a dialogue written by Marcus Tullius Cicero, in which Scipio Aemilianus examines Roman government.