Medieval philosophical literature

political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli

1509 essay by Desiderius Erasmus

theological treatise by Thomas Aquinas

philosophical work by Boethius

The Hermetica are texts attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. These texts may vary widely in content and purpose, but by modern convention are usually subdivided into two main categories, the "technical" and "religio-philosophical" Hermetica.

thumb|1521 edition of Convivio, retitled to Lo amoroso Convivio di Dante Convivio (;) ("The Banquet") is an unfinished work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. It consists of four books, or "tratatti": a prefatory one, plus three books that each include a canzone (long lyrical poem) and a prose allegorical interpretation or commentary of the poem that goes off in multiple thematic directions.

public discourse by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

anthology of the Taoist Canon compiled in 1029 by Zhang Junfang

book by Roger Bacon

medieval philosophical and theological text of uncertain authorship; consists of 24 responses of 24 many philosophers attending a fictional gathering, attempting to answer the question, “what is God?”

essay by Marsilius of Padua

textbook on logic (1323) by William of Ockham