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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Wednesday 20 August 1930: 'I am reading Dante, & I say, yes, this makes all writing unnecessary [...] I read the Inferno for half an hour at the end of my own page [of cu...Virginia Woolf Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 24 September 1930: 'I am reading Dante; & my present view of reading is to elongate immensely. I take a week over one canto. No hurry.'Virginia Woolf Dante AlighieriLa Divina CommediaPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] stolid, second rate, a snob, & very vain [...] Reads ...Sir Ronald Storrs Dante AlighieriDivine ComedyPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 21 December 1845: 'Yesterday I was reading the "Purgatorio" and the first speech of the group of which Sordello makes one, struck...Robert Browning Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1900-1945'Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia 1309 (?) which I'd never read and now only have in translation, must have been written excitedly, and while Div[ina]. Com[media] was forming...Edward Morgan Forster Dante AlighieriDe Vulgari EloquentiaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and the conduct of the story; and it has had the best evi...Samuel Johnson Dante AlighieriDivine ComedyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and t...Alfred and Emily TennysonDante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Naples, 1826', C.M.G. describes the city and (mis)quotes a line from Dante, "Inferno," Canto 7: "Qu...C.M.G. [anon] Dante AlighieriDivina Commedia: InfernoPrint: 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 Dante AlighieriDivina CommediaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I noticed in Dante today, the two lines, "quali dal vento &c." (Inferno, book 7th, 12) as curiously describing the moment chosen by Turner in the battle of Trafalgar.'John Ruskin Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1900-1945'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mrs Edminson read selections'.Elizabeth Smith Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1900-1945'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mrs Edminson read selections'.Elizabeth Edminson Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1900-1945'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mrs Edminson read selections'.Howard R. Smith Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on t...Mebers of XII Book ClubDante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on t...Members of XII Book ClubDante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on t...Frederick Edminson Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on t...Miss Marriage Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 25 November 1829: 'We have a quantity of leisure here, and go on in a spirited manner with Dante. I am now re...Granville familyDante Alighieri Print: Book
1900-1945'Italian quite comes up to K's promises about its easiness and on Sunday I read the first 200 lines of Dante with much success. By the end of term I should be able to r...Clive Staples Lewis Dante AlighieriDivine ComedyPrint: Book
1850-1899'David Watson, M.A. of St. Andrews University, used to spend every spare moment of his day and whole Sundays on end with this writer [Ford] standing beside him at his p...Ford Madox Ford Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book


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