The World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal

002 - Italy Part I: In mediaeval times: Historical note

003 - The coming of Charlemagne (774), by Gustave Masson

004 - How Rome was defended from the Saracens (848), by Archibald Bower

005 - The story of Gregory the Great (1050-1085), by Louise Creighton

006 - Excommunicated, by Jean Paul Laurens (French painter, 1838), painting p. 12

007 - St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), by Eva March Tappan

008 - The sermon of St. Francis, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

009 - A day in Florence, in the thirteenth century, by Guido Biagi

010 - Italy Part II: Dante and his age: Historical note

011 - Dante's vision of Heaven (1265-1321), by Norley Chester

012 - Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), by Eva March Tappan

013 - Pope Boniface defies his assailants, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1908), painting p. 36

014 - A supposed street scene in Verona in the fourteenth century, by William Shakespeare

015 - The rule of Rienzi (1347-1354), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

016 - The flagellants, by Carl Marr (American painter, 1858), painting p. 48

017 - Italy Part III: The Renaissance: Historical note

018 - How the doges of Venice were chosen, from the old chronicles

019 - The burning of the vanities (1497), by George Eliot

020 - Benvenuto Cellini, a goldsmith of the sixteenth century (1500-1571), by Alexandre Dumas

021 - Galileo before the Inquisition, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 72

022 - The Bridge of Sighs, by Lord Byron

023 - Italy Part IV: Stories of the Italian artists: Historical note

024 - Cimabue, the father of painting (1240-1302), by Clara Erskine Clement

025 - Giotto and his ''O'' (1276-1336), by Clara Erskine Clement

026 - Stories of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), by Giorgio Vasari

027 - Padre Bandelli proses to the duke Ludovico Sforza about Leonardo da Vinci, by William Wetmore Story

028 - Michael Angelo and Pope Julius II (1506-1512), by Anna Jameson

029 - Michael Angelo and Raphael in the Vatican, by Horace Vernet (France, 1789-1863), painting p. 102

030 - Raphael and his critic (1483-1520), by Giorgio Vasari

031 - Vasari's memories of Titian (1477-1576), by Giorgio Vasari

032 - Italy Part V: Modern Italy: Historical note

033 - When Napoleon crossed the Alps (1800), by John S. C. Abbott

034 - How Italy became a united country (1848-1861), by Louise Creighton

035 - The forced recruit, Solferino, 1859, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

036 - Garibaldi and his prisoner (1860), by Felicia Buttz Clark

037 - France Part I: In the dark ages: Historical note

038 - The Christmas of 496, by J. C. Bateman

039 - The famous victory of Charles Martel (732), by A. W. Grube

040 - The lament of Charlemagne for Roland (about 780), translated by Isabel Butler

041 - Charlemagne, emperor of the West (800), by A. W. Grube

042 - Rollo the Viking (885), by Eva March Tappan

043 - Saint Louis opening the prisons of his realm, by Luc Olivier Merson (French painter, 1846-), painting p. 172

044 - France Part II: Stories of the Hundred Years' War: Historical note

045 - The battle of Crécy (1346), by Sir John Froissart

046 - How Queen Philippa saved the burghers (1347), by Sir John Froissart

047 - The coming of the Maid of Orléans (1428) by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

048 - Coronation of Charles VII at Rheims, by Jules Eugène Lenepveu (from a painting in the Pantheon at Paris), painting p. 192

049 - The death of Jeanne d'Arc (1431), by Mary Rogers Bangs

050 - France Part III: France under the Valois kings: Historical note

051 - Where Louis XI said his prayers (about 1483), by Victor Hugo

052 - Anne of Brittany and her court (1476-1514), by Catherine Charlotte

053 - The death of the chevalier Bayard (1524), from the old chronicles

054 - Francis I and Charles V in St. Denis, by Antoine Jean Gros (French artist, 1771-1835), painting p. 226

055 - King Francis I and the goldsmith (1540), by Benvenuto Cellini

056 - France Part IV: The house of Bourbon: Historical note

057 - The battle of Ivry (1590), by Thomas Babington Macaulay

058 - Henry IV and Marie de Médici, by Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish painter, 1574-1642), painting p. 240

059 - Cardinal Richelieu and his enemy (about 1640), by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton

060 - In the days of the Fronde (1648), by Alexandre Dumas

061 - The death of Louis XIV (1715), by Julie Pardoe

062 - Louis XIV and Molière, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French painter, born 1824, died 1904), painting p. 270

063 - France Part V: On the eve of the French Revolution: Historical note

064 - When Marie Antoinette entered Paris (1773)

065 - How the queen was served, by Madame Campan

066 - The wardrobe of Marie Antoinette, by Madame Campan

067 - The fall of the Bastille (1789), by Alexandre Dumas

068 - The flight of Louis XVI (1791), by Charles Duke Yonge

069 - The Marseillaise (1792), by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

070 - France Part VI: The reign of Terror: Historical note

071 - The execution of Louis XVI (1793), by Edmond Biré

072 - Marie Antoinette in the Conciergerie, by Charles Louis Müller (French painter, 1815-1892), painting p. 316

073 - In the revolt of the Vendée (1793), by Victor Hugo

074 - Girondists on their way to the guillotine, by Karl Theodor von Piloty (German artist, 1826-1886), painting p. 326

075 - At the guillotine, by Charles Dickens

076 - The fall of Robespierre (1794), by Thomas Carlyle

077 - France Part VII: Napoleon Bonaparte: Historical note

078 - The eighteenth Brumaire, by François Bouchot (French artist, 1800-1842), painting p. 347

079 - The battle of Eylau (1807), by Isaac McLellan

080 - The retreat from Moscow (1812), by Victor Hugo

081 - The retreat from Moscow, by Adolphe Yvon (French painter, 1817-1893), painting p. 352

082 - The coming of Louis XVIII (1814), by Louisa Mühlbach

083 - The return of Napoleon from Elba (1815), by Anonymous

084 - When Napoleon returned from Elba (1815), by Napoleon Bonaparte

085 - Waterloo (1815), by Victor Hugo

086 - Evening of the battle of Waterloo, by Ernest Crofts (English painter, 1847), painting p. 384

087 - The death of Napoleon (1821), by Isaac McLellan

088 - France Part VIII: The Franco-Prussian War: Historical note

089 - The white flag of Sedan (1870), by Emile Zola

090 - One day under the Commune (1871), by John Leighton

091 - The defense of Champigny, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (born in Paris, 1848), painting p. 406

092 - The soldiers' dream, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (French artist, 1848), painting p. 418

093 - Spain Part I: Under the Romans and the Moors: Historical note

094 - The sacrifice of the people of Saguntum (219 B.C.) by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper

095 - The white hind of Sertorius (about 80 B.C.), by Plutarch

096 - The challenge of Paulus (about 672 A.D.), by Paulus

097 - King Roderick and the magic tower (709 A.D.), an ancient legend related by Washington Irving

098 - Diego Perez, ''the Pounder'', from an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart

099 - The Cid and the leper (eleventh century), an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart

100 - Spain Part II: The reign of Ferdinand and Isabella: Historical note

101 - The elopment of Ferdinand and Isabella (1469), by John S. C. Abbott

102 - Torquemada and the catholic king, by Jean Paul Laurens (French artist, 1838), painting p. 458

103 - The surrender of Granada (1492), by Washington Irving

104 - The governor of the Alhambra and the notary, by Washington Irving

105 - A glimpse of Columbus in Spain (1492), by James Fenimore Cooper

106 - Columbus at the court of Spain, by Vacslav Brozik (Bohemian artist, 1851-1901), painting p. 482

107 - The return of Columbus (1493), by Washington Irving

108 - Spain Part III: Spain at the height of her power: Historical note

109 - The first voyage around the World, by Eva March Tappan

110 - The abdication of Charles (1556), by William H. Prescott

111 - The Escurial, by Théophile Gautier, translated by C. F. Bates

112 - The knight of the windmills, by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

113 - Captain Cuellar of the Armada and his troubles (1588), by James Anthony Froude

114 - Spain Part IV: The period of decline: Historical note

115 - Velasquez, the greatest of Spanish painters (1599-1660), by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper

116 - Spanish home life in the seventeenth century, by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper

117 - The queen and her superintendent, by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper

118 - The crossing of the Douro (1809), by Charles Lever

119 - Portugal Part I: The age of chivalry: Historical note

120 - How the first king of Portugal won his kingdom (1139-1185), by Oswald Crawfurd

121 - The penance of a prince (about 1240), by Edward McMurdo

122 - The coronation of Inez de Castro (about 1347), by Felicia D. Hemans

123 - The betrothal of Princess Philippa (1385), by Sir John Froissart

124 - A joust at the court of Portugal (about 1400), by Sir John Froissart

125 - Portugal Part II: Exploration and discovery: Historical note

126 - Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), by John Fiske

127 - The search for Prester John (1486), by John Fiske

128 - The first voyage to India (1497), by William H. G. Kingston

129 - How Portugal opened commerce with India (1498), by Jules Verne

130 - The speech of Vasco da Gama to the king of Calicut (1498), by Luis de Camoëns

131 - Portugal Part III: The last four centuries: Historical note

132 - The departure of King Sebastian (1578), an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart

133 - The earthquake at Lisbon (1755), by Rev. Charles Davy

134 - A Portuguese shooting party (1880), by Oswald Crawfurd