A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter: “superstitions easily traceable to Pliny's Natural History”
Penguin Island by Anatole France: “We have vainly sought for this phrase in Pliny's 'Natural History.'”
Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Essay 'The Sky, Man, the Elephant' (primary subject)”
The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino: “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 by Robert Burton: “Uncle Pliny, lib. 2. cap. 7. nat. hist. and lib. 7. cap. 55, in express words denies the immortality of the soul.”
Waverley by Walter Scott: “nor would I utterly accede to the objurgation of the younger Plinius, in the fourteenth book of his 'Historia Naturalis.'”