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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: "In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, ...Count Vittorio Alfieri Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 8 November 1802: 'I have read one canto of Ariosto today.'Dorothy Wordsworth Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoUnknown
1700-1799'Did you never, madam, wish for Angelica's Invisible Ring, in Ariosto's "Orlando"? - I remember when I first read of it, I laboured under a real uneasiness for a whole we...Samuel Richardson Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariosto and "Six weeks at Longs." The latter end of this d...Thomas Carlyle Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoUnknown
1800-1849'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid 90 lines - S & C. read Ariosto - 7th Canto. M. reads...Percy Shelley and Claire ClairmontLudovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio'Mary Shelley Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening'Mary Shelley Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.Mary Shelley Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'Mary Shelley Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'Mary Shelley Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Orlando Furioso - read Anacharsis - S. corrects the Symposium and reads Herodotus'Mary Shelley Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History ha...Sarah Harriet Burney Ludovico Ariosto[Works]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'.George Eliot [pseud.] Ludovico Antonio MuratoriunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's "Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini"... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.George Eliot [pseud] Ludovico Antonio Muratori[unknown, on the Confraternita]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read journey to the World Underground'Mary Shelley Ludwig HolbergNicolai Klimii Iter subterraneumPrint: Book
1800-1849'read the arcadia & the world underground'Mary Shelley Ludwig HolbergNicolai Klimii Iter subterraneumPrint: Book
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1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ludwig Heinrich Christoph HoltyGedichtePrint: Book
1900-1945'The music of "La Boheme" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as I could find about Murger and his world, and the pe...Ralph Glasser Luigi Illica[libretto of 'La Boheme]Print: Book


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