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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read "Blackwood"'.George Eliot [pseud] Niccolo MachiavelliIstorie fiorentinePrint: Book
1700-1799'Coleridge's interest in [Amos] Cottle dated back at least to May 1797, when he read his Latin poem, Italia, vastata ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Amos CottleItalia, vastataUnknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Italian & French Proverbs rythmisd'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Philip WoodhouseItalian & French Proverbs rythmisdUnknown
1800-1849'Monday Jany. 19th. [...] Learn an Italian dialogue [...] Read three of Cobbett's Registers. In one of these he mentions Mr. W-- Friend as a very able, firm, & worthy ...Claire Clairmont Italian dialoguePrint: Book
1850-1899'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help W...Oscar Wilde Italian DictionaryPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Cesare MussoliniItalian ExercisesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 16-21 May 1847: 'I went a week ago into Wilson's room & stood by the table in my lazy careless way, turning ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Italian grammarPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 16-21 May 1847: 'I went a week ago into Wilson's room & stood by the table in my lazy careless way, turning ...Elizabeth Wilson Italian grammarPrint: Book
1800-1849'On the evening of our arrival at Verona, George said to me, "H, have you got an Italian grammar with you?" -- "Yes." -- "Because I want to look up the verbs." I handed...George Grote Italian grammarPrint: Book
1850-1899'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help W...Oscar Wilde Italian Grammar BookPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and some in Spanish.' Gabriel Harvey unknownItalian grammarsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1821: 'I have just read in an Italian paper "That Ld. B. has a tragedy coming out" &c. &c ... I do reiterate -- and desire that every thi...George Gordon Lord Byron Italian newspaperPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1800-1849'Looking at Sismondi's "Italian Republics" an odd fit of industry came over me in the morning.'John Ruskin Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de SismondiItalian RepublicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Staid in all day for cold, but sketched some figures from window, and heard some of Sismondi's "Italian Republics", and my day has been rather profitable.'John Ruskin Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de SismondiItalian RepublicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.'Anne Isabella Milbanke SismondiItalian RepublicsPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.'William Ewart Gladstone Italian textsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 17 February 1873: "I read Italian regularly for a short time daily and find it very easy."Henry James unknownItalian textsPrint: Unknown
1700-1799' I would advise you to read Mrs R's "Italian" in your own chamber, not to lose the picturesque images with which it abounds.'Mary Wollstonecraft Anne RadcliffeItalian, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she read the Italian'.Clara Mary Jane (Claire) Clairmont Ann RadcliffeItalian; or, the Confession of the Black Penitents...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the Italian & talk all day'.Mary Godwin Ann RadcliffeItalian; or, the Confession of the Black Penitents...Print: Book


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