Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the equal or unequal sin of Eve and Adam / by Isotta Nogarola -- The Prince / Niccolò Machiavelli -- The Muqaddimah, / Ibn Khaldûn -- Notebooks / Leonardo da Vinci -- The Starry messenger, "A grand revolution" (box) / Galileo Galilie -- Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare (box) / William Shakespeare -- Heptaméron / Margaret of Navarre -- Don Quixote / Miguel Cervantes -- "Of cannibals" / Michel de Montaigne -- The description of the new world called the blazing world / Margaret Cavendish -- "The ninety-five theses or disputation on the power and efficacy of indulgences"/ Martin Luther -- "The sixty-seven articles of Ulrich Zwingli" / Huldrych Zwingli -- Ecclesiastical ordinances, Institutes of the Christian religion / by John Calvin -- "Elizabeth, a dutch anabaptist martyr: a letter" / Elizabeth -- Spiritual exercises / Ignatius of Loyola -- Centuries / by Nostradamus -- The life of Teresa of Jesus / Teresa de Av́ila -- "Profession of the Tridentine faith" / The Roman Catholic Church -- Malleus maleficarum / Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger.