The Well of Saint Clare

by Anatole France · 1895

Ironic, jewel-like tales of monks, poets, and devils set in Renaissance Italy, told with France's skeptical charm.

Books mentioned in The Well of Saint Clare (9)

• The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio: “The Decameron of Messer Giovanni Boccaccio, Sixth Day, Novella IX.”
• Lives of the Most Excellent Painters by Giorgio Vasari: “Lives of the most Excellent Painters, by Giorgio Vasari.--'Life of Spinello.'”
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri: “the account in verse which Dante Alighieri... wrote... of his journey to Hell and Purgatory and Paradise”
• Symposium by Plato: “It was a Treatise on Love, writ in Greek by the divine Plato.”
• Odes by Horace: “Serus in caelum redeas.--Ode 2 of Book I, addressed to Augustus.”
• Orations by Cicero: “give him the Manuscript of the Speeches of Cicero, which he read”
• La Vedova by Niccolo Buonaparte: “Niccolo, author of a Comedy entitled La Vedova that was declared the work of another Terence”
• La Promenade by Marie-Joseph Chenier: “(Marie-Joseph Chenier, La Promenade.)”
• Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène by Emmanuel de Las Cases: “(Memorial de Saint-Helene, par le comte de Las Cases)”