The Ask the Archivist column in the Fall 2021 Rochester Review answered a question from Professor Gerald Gamm, who asked about the history of the Cutler Lecture Series which celebrated it centenary in 2021. You can read the article here.
John Dryden (1631-1700)
The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, In Three Parts. London: Jacob Tonson, 1687
John Dryden (1631-1700)
Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. An Historical Poem: Containing the Progress and various Successes of our Naval War with Holland, under the Conduct of His Highness Prince Rupert, and his Grace the Duke of Albemarl. And describing the Fire of London. London: Henry Herringman, 1667.
John Dryden (1631-1700)
Amphitryon; or, The Two Socia's. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. Written by Mr. Dryden. To which is added, The Musick of the Songs. Compos'd by Mr. Henry Purcel. London: J. Tonson, 1690.
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882).
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1859.
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321).
La Comedia di Dante Aligieri con la nova espositione di Alessandro Vellvtello. Venice: Francesco Marcolini, 1544.
Hernán Cortés (1485-1547)
Historia de Nueva-España, escrita por su esclarecido conquistador Hernan Cortes, aumentada
con otros documentos, y notas, por el ilustrissimo señor don Francisco Antonio Lorenzana,
Arzobispo de Mexico. México: Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1770.
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543).
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI. Basle: Heinrich Petri, 1566.
Copernicus wrote De revolutionibus at the cathedral in Frauenburg (now Frombork) in the northernmost diocese in Poland. Being far away from the main European universities and printing shops, it is very unlikely that Copernicus would have seen his astronomical treatise printed except for the active role of Georg Joachim Rheticus, a young professor of astronomy from Lutheran Wittenberg.
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400).
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770).
Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century. London: T. Payne and Son, 1778.
