Reliable Accounts of the Most Eminent Writers from the Beginning of the World to 1500

The number of articles contained in all four parts amounts to one thousand and twenty-four. The information I provide is sometimes more extensive, sometimes shorter, as the available material permitted. I have treated some writers only occasionally in notes; counting these, the number of articles in the whole work might rise to approximately one thousand and fifty. If this number should seem too small in view of the centuries I have traversed,