/lit/ - Literature

I thought I'd put this in its own thread.
>Virgil: Æneid and Eclogues, possibly Georgics, possibly Culex. Probably the commentary of Servius.
>Ovid: Metamorphoses, possibly some of the Heroides, little to none of the erotic poetry.
>Statius: Thebaid, Achilleid.
>Lucan: Pharsalia (Civil War).
>Horace: Epistles, Ars Poetica.
>Juvenal: Satires.
>Cicero: Philosophical works- De Officiis, De Finibus, Cato Major de Senctute, Lælius de Amicitiâ. No orations, no letters.
>Seneca: Probably something at least.
>Livy: Probably only in epitomes; perhaps the epitome of Florus in particular.
>Plato: Timæus ONLY, in the Latin translation of Chalcidius.
>Aristotle: Complete works in various Latin translations, save (ironically) the Poetics.
>Deus: Biblia Sacra Vulgata.
>Orosius: History against the Pagans. This was his primary source for ancient history.
>Augustine: Various, especially On Christian Doctrine and City of God.
>Boethius: Consolation of Philosophy.
He knew Latin, not Greek, and many classic Latin authors- Tacitus, most of Livy, Cicero's letters, Vitruvius- weren't returned to circulation until the Renaissance. Suetonius and Sallust were in circulation, but Dante gives no sign of having rred them. Dante's references to and quotations from other authors, such as Homer, were learned either from the works mentioned above (especially from Cicero) or from florilegia (anthologies of quotations). Of course, this is only a list of -ancient authors-, of course he'd rred French romances, Aquinas, Anselm, Abelard, Albertus &c. and of course the other Italian poets of his day.
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4qKa8ra32gC