February 28

In literary history

• 1571Michel de Montaigne retired on his thirty-eighth birthday to a tower on his estate, installed a thousand books, and had his resolution inscribed on the wall in Latin. The form he invented there, the essay, has never been improved upon.

Writers born on February 28

• Michel de Montaigne (1533)

The Daily Canon for February 28

Essays by Michel de Montaigne (1580).