The Uses of Literature on Natural History: “Preface to an Italian translation; Calvino discusses Pliny's prose style and his survey of the animal world in Book VIII”
The Anatomy of Melancholy on Natural History: “Uncle Pliny, lib. 2. cap. 7. nat. hist. and lib. 7. cap. 55, in express words denies the immortality of the soul.”
Waverley on Natural History: “nor would I utterly accede to the objurgation of the younger Plinius, in the fourteenth book of his 'Historia Naturalis.'”