Antonio de Guevera (1481-1545) was a Spanish writer and official chronicler of Charles V. Guevera's Una Decada de Cesares, published in 1539, was based on the lives of the ten caesars from Trajan to Severus Alexander, and became a widely translated and imitated work.

This work traces the history of Mexican literary academies and societies from the sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle's (1657-1757) Dialogues were written when he was only twenty-five and published in full in 1683. Donald Schier provides an introduction and notes to what was de Fontenelle's first major work, but the text is based on a 1758 edition of Dialogues.

This is the first English-language study of bestiaries, mediaeval works that described and illustrated animals, birds, and other creatures. Florence McCulloch describes the nature of the Latin Physiologus, which is frequently cited as among the earliest examples of serious works of natural history.

Luis de Lucena (1465-1530) was a Spanish writer whose Repeticion de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez con 101 Juegos de Partido is the oldest surviving book on the game of chess. Jacob Ornstein provides an annotated introduction in two parts that gives a general overview of the text and its author, and discusses the work in relation to the Feminist debates.

Mario Pei (1901-1978) was a writer, linguist, translator, and academic who wrote more than fifty books and had a distinguished career at Columbia University. This volume of Pei's scholarly articles was selected by his students and colleagues, and published posthumously.

Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work, the Historical and Critical Dictionary. This brief book examines Bayle's writings about Spanish authors and their work, which Scholberg argues was influential on other French critics and philosophers.

Balzac made a conscious effort in Comedie Humaine to multiply the reappearance, from book to book, of some of his characters. This careful analysis of nearly six-hundred reappearing characters shows that some appear only briefly, in no significant role; others play important parts; and some become principals in later action.

Published in 1963, this book gave historical context to the works of Camilo Jose Cela (1916-2002) who would go on to be awarded the Nobel prize in Literature in 1989.

This volume is composed of articles by former students of Professor Holmes and presented to him in his sixty-fifth year. Most of the essays deal with medieval subjects or subjects very closely associated with the Middle Ages.