- Lives of the Popes, Volume 1, Antiquity
- Imprisoned for conspiring against Pope Paul II Platina (1421–1481) returned to favor under Pope Sixtus IV, and composed his most famous work, a biographical compendium of the Roman popes from St. Peter down to his own time. The work critically synthesized a wide range of sources and became the standard reference work on papal history for early modern Europe. This edition contains the first complete translation into English and an improved Latin text.
- Hardcover May 2008
- Lamentations of Youth
- For decades, Scholem kept these diaries locked away. They remained unread by others until the meticulously edited German edition appeared in 2002. Lamentations of Youth gives insight into a crucial stage in Scholem's life, a time of incubation and growth for his later ideas, and makes available the diaries where Scholem forged his anarchic orthodoxy and chronicled his intense relationship with Walter Benjamin.
- Hardcover January 2008
- Commentaries, Volume 2, Books III-IV
- The Renaissance popes were among the most enlightened and generous patrons of arts and letters in the Europe of their day. The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest of the Renaissance popes. Commentaries, the only autobiography ever written by a pope, was composed in elegant humanistic Latin modeled on Caesar and Cicero. This edition contains a fresh Latin text based on the last manuscript written in Pius's lifetime and an updated translation.
- Hardcover November 2007
See also: All Books in BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.