The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton: “Montaigne, in his Essays, gives instate in Caesar, Mahomet the Turk, that sacked Constantinople, and Ladislaus, king of Naples, that besieged Florence:”
Light, Wind and Dreams by Atsushi Nakajima: “Lately I have been reading Montaigne's Essays, the second book, straight through. I read this book once before, before I was twenty, for the sake of learning style, and I am astonished at it now: what could I possibly have understood of it then? [auto-translated]”