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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
 
1800-1849''Monday June 18th. Pack up [for departure to Pisa next day] [...] Read the Cavaliere del buon Gusto da Goldoni [sic].'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniIl Cavaliere di buon gustoPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] March 26th. [...] Read in the Evening I Mercanti [sic] and Le Donne Curiose di Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniI Due Pantaloni o i mercantantiPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] March 26th. [...] Read in the Evening I Mercanti [sic] and Le Donne Curiose di Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniLe Donne CuriosePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday March 28th. [...] Read Il Poeta Fanatico di Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniIl Poeta FanaticoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday March 31st. Read Il Matrimonio per Concorso di Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniIl Matrimonio per concorsoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read and finish Gozzi's play of Zobeide'Mary Shelley Carlo GozziLa ZobeidePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Il tre Melerancie of Gozzi'Mary Shelley Carlo GozziL'amore delle tre melerancePrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:] 'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a most excellent companion to me. Do you remember the ...Catherine Talbot Carlo Maggi'Prologue to a comedy of Plautus'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:] 'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a most excellent companion to me. Do you remember the ...Catherine Talbot Carlo MaggiLetters to RosaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 May 1763:] 'Carlo Maggi is, indeed, a most excellent companion, and I agree with you in lamenting that one cannot recommend t...Elizabeth Carter Carlo MaggipoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:] 'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read the death of Adam. It is extremely fine, but so p...Catherine Talbot Carlo Maggi'the Death of Adam'Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 April 1763:] 'I am rather scandalized that you should even ask how I like the Malincolia d'Alcindo, which is beautiful in the ...Elizabeth Carter Carlo MaggiMalincolia d'AlicinoPrint: Book
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1600-1699		Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: 'Mie principal Autors for Warr, after much reading,...Gabriel Harvey Carlo ThetiunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754: 'I will send you a sonnet that I am extremely fond of, from no modern author, but from one whom I am sure you never...Catherine Talbot Carlo Maria MaggiSonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...'Unknown
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 July 1754: 'I am beyond description charmed with the Italian sonnet you sent me. I am afraid your opinion is too well grounded...Elizabeth Carter Carlo Maria MaggiSonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...'Manuscript: Letter, Transcribed by Catherine Talbot in letter of 10 June 1754.
1800-1849'My dear Caroline, I wish I could finish Stories as fast as you can. - I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, & think you have done for her very well; but the ...Jane Austen Caroline Austenunpublished storyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'I have been very much entertained by your story of Carolina & her aged Father, it made me laugh heartily, & I am particularly glad to find you so much alive upon any top...Jane Austen Caroline Austenunpublished storyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Your Anne is dreadful - . But nothing offends me so much as the absurdity of not being able to pronounce the word Shift. I could forgive her any follies in English, rath...Jane Austen Caroline Austenunpublished manuscript storyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Saturday August 19th. [...] Read Parents Offering. [...] Do a Latin exercise from the Odyssey.' Claire Clairmont Caroline BarnardThe Parent's Offering; or Tales for ChildrenPrint: Book
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to William Blackwood, 13 June 1827: 'I beg to thank you for your obliging letter and valuable present of books, from the perusal of which I have derived gr...Felicia Hemans Caroline BowlesSolitary HoursPrint: Book


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