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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'When I reached home someone had dropped a letter in the box telling me to come over on Sunday between eleven and twelve because she would be at home then. I went, we wen...Cyril Lionel Robert James Luigi PirandelloSix Characters in Search of an AuthorPrint: Book
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and fi...George Eliot [pseud] Luigi Pulci[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente'George Eliot [pseud] Luigi Pulci[unknown -novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'At present I am running along with Pulci, and have got interested in the paladins, but find him less full of point and idiom than I expected after the first Canto or two...George Eliot [pseud] Luigi Pulci[probably] MorgantePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 11 December 1798: '[William] Roscoe has just sent us a poem of his translation from an Italian poet whose very name was unknown to my shadowy...Mary Berry Luigi Tansillo"The Nurse"Unknown
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Farewell to the Year/ by Luis Baylon [?], translated by J.G. Lockhart'; [Text] 'Hark friends! It strikes -the year's ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Luis BaylonFarewell to the YearPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & generally, feeling. I should have thought Camoens defici...Robert Southey Luis Vaz de Camoëns The LusiadPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & generally, feeling. I should have thought Camoens defici...Robert Southey Luis Vaz de Camoëns SonnetsPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1-7 January, 1797: '...the view is bounded by the accursed smoke of London. methinks like Camoens I could dub it Babylon & wr...Robert Southey Luis Vaz de Camoëns ‘Babylon and Sion’ Print: Book
1700-1799'In this letter [to Boswell from Mr Mickle] he relates his having, while engaged in translating the "Lusiad", had a dispute of considerable length with Johnson, who, as u...Samuel Johnson Luis Vaz de CamoensLusiadsPrint: Book
1700-1799'[william Mickle said] Dr. Johnson told me in 1772, that, about twenty years before that time, he himself had a design to translate the "Lusiad", of the merit of which he...Samuel Johnson Luis Vaz de CamoensLusiadsPrint: Book
1900-1945Considerable marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. There are notes in ink by Lujo Brentano on the rear flyleaf. This volume was given to Vernon Lee by Lu...Vernon Lee Lujo BrentanoDer wirtschaftende mensch in der geschichtePrint: Book
1900-1945Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, but some in German, throughout the volume. This volume was given to Vernon Lee by Lujo Brentano (no date recorded).Vernon Lee Lujo BrentanoDie Anf?nge des modernen KapitalismusPrint: Book
1900-1945Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. ?Ended reading Jan.22 XXVIII? on the inside front cover of vol. 1. Vernon Lee Lujo BrentanoEine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung En...Print: Book
1900-1945Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. ?Finished reading this volume 29 Feb 1928? on the inside cover on vol. 2. Vernon Lee Lujo BrentanoEine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung En...Print: Book
1900-1945Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. Volume 3 is published in 1929.Vernon Lee Lujo BrentanoEine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung En...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 20 December 1845: 'Mrs. Sigourney has just sent me, .. just this morning .. her "Scenes in my native land" -- &...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Lydia SigourneyScenes in my Native LandPrint: Book
1900-1945'I collected my thoughts. My ideas about prison came from American films, and I envisaged cells of which one side would be made of iron bars, all giving on to a landing,...Diana Mosley Lytton StracheyElizabeth and EssexPrint: Book
1900-194523 July 1918: 'Jack Hills & Pippa dined here [...] To my surprise [...] he knows about Georgian poetry, & has read Lytton's book, & condemns the Victorians.' ...John Waller Hills Lytton StracheyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 25 November 1928: 'I took Essex & Eth (Lytton's) down [to Rodmell] to read, & Lord forgive me! -- find it a poor book. I have not finished it, and am keeping it to...Virginia Woolf Lytton StracheyElizabeth and EssexUnknown


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