The Library
1780 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
501–600
2 works
c. 501–513
Latin
Ennodius of Pavia · c. 474 – 521
A bishop of Pavia writing in prose so ornamented that readers have complained about it for fifteen hundred years. The life of his predecessor shows a bishop ransoming captives from Burgundians and Goths and negotiating with kings, because there was nobody else left to do it.
537
Latin
Cassiodorus · c. 485–c. 585
Official letters drafted for the Ostrogothic kings of Italy, collected as models of style, and covering everything from theology to sewer repair and the price of pepper.
2 of 1780 works