'On 29 Nov. 1805, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont: "I am reading Rosco's Leo the tenth - I have only got through the first Chapter which I find exceedingly interesting. The whole Book can scarcely be so interesting to me."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book
' ... by 11 Jan. 1806 ... [Southey] was reading ... [Roscoe, "Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth"] a second time [having read it to review it in 1805]: "I am come to Roscoe," he told Henry Herbert Southey, "whose book rises much in my estimation upon a second perusal."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a passage I have not found. Read the 4th. vol. of W. Scott's second series of "Tales of my Landlord".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
'You will readily believe that I have not read much since I wrote to you. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo di'Medici - a work concerning which I shall only observe, in the words of the Auctioneer that it is "well worth any gentleman's perusal" - is the only thing almost that I recollect aught abo[ut.]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
'Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
'Began with eagerness, and read, with increasing avidity, the first four Chapters of Roscoe's "Life of Lorenzo de Medici"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
'Concluded a second reading of Roscoe's "Lorenzo de Medici", which fades considerably on a reperusal...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes of Horace'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginning to end and his hints are most rational - these letters will well make up to you what is unfilled up in my sheet. I send you likewise a volume of poems by a young friend of mine of very great poetical powers. I have been greatly instrumental in bringing them forward, and subscribed for ten copies and I beg you will accept of this as a small present to the neat collection upstairs which has erst been free to me'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg Manuscript: presumably in MS
