biographies
The Accursed Poets
Les Poètes maudits
Paul Verlaine · French · 1884
Concerning Famous Women
De Mulieribus Claris
Giovanni Boccaccio · Neo-Latin · 1362
The Deeds of Charlemagne
Gesta Karoli Magni
Notker the Stammerer · Medieval Latin · 888
Deeds of Tancred in the Crusades
Gesta Tancredi in expeditione Hierosolymitana
Ralph of Caen · Medieval Latin · 1130
Historia Augusta
Scriptores Historiae Augustae
Unknown · Late Latin · 330
The Life of Benito Mussolini
Dux
Margherita Sarfatti · Italian · 1925
Life of Charlemagne
Vita Karoli Magni
Einhard · Medieval Latin · 830
The Life of King Alfred
Vita Ælfredi regis Angul Saxonum
Asser · Medieval Latin · 893
Life of Saint Louis
Vie de saint Louis
John of Joinville · Old French · 1309
Life of Saint Malachi, Bishop of Ireland
Liber De vita et rebus gestis Sancti Malachiae Hiberniae Episcopi
Bernard of Clairvaux · Medieval Latin · 1149
Life of St. Martin of Tours
Vita Martini
Sulpicius Severus · Late Latin · 395
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Βίοι καὶ γνῶμαι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ εὐδοκιμησάντων (Vitae Philosophorum)
Diogenes Laertius · Koine Greek · 300
Lives of the Caesars (The Twelve Caesars)
Dē vītā Caesarum
Suetonius · Classical Latin · 121
Lives of the Physicians
عيون الأنباء في طبقات الأطباء
Ibn Abi Usaybi'a · Classical Arabic · 1245
On the Fates of Famous Men
De casibus virorum illustrium
Giovanni Boccaccio · Neo-Latin · 1373
Parallel Lives
Βίοι Παράλληλοι
Plutarch · Koine Greek · 100
Running
Courir
Jean Echenoz · French · 2008
Secret History of the Mongols
ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠤᠨ ᠨᠢᠭᠤᠴᠠ ᠲᠣᠪᠴᠢᠶᠠᠨ
Unknown · Middle Mongolian · 1240
Traces of Enayat
Fi Athar Enayat al-Zayyat
Iman Mersal · Modern Arabic · 2019