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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'My own darling, I write to you in the middle of reading "Orlando", in such a turmoil of excitement and confusion that I scarcely know where (or who!) I am. It came this...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfOrlandoPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. R....		Roger Moore Virginia WoolfOrlandoPrint: Book
1700-1799'"My Sister would be very glad of your assistance in her Italian studies," W[ordsworth] wrote to [William] Mathews on 21 March 1796, " ... yesterday we began Ariosto."'William and Dorothy WordsworthLudovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
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, ...George Gordon Lord Byron Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoManuscript: Unknown
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[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge M Lodovico 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'Shelley and Clara begin Orlando Furioso'.Percy Shelley and Claire ClairmontLodovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'read a scene or two out of "As You Like It" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley finishes the 3d canto of Ariosto'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Lodovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'.Percy Shelley and Claire ClairmontLodovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
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


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