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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
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'In Chaucer I for ever find the ribible — but nothing else & no explanation of that. now tho I have use...Robert Southey Gines Perez de HitaGuerras Civiles de GranadaPrint: Book
1800-1849"I shall not be able to avail myself of the assistance of Bruno's fairies." [Reference to writings of Giordano Bruno 1548-1600. Italian Heretic philosopher - according to...William Blake Giordano BrunounknownUnknown
1800-1849Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 6 June 1843: 'I read Vasari, all day -- yesterday[.] Why are Vasari's Lives so popular [--] why have they gone through s...Benjamin Robert Haydon Giorgio VasariDelle vite de piu eccelenti pittori, scultori, ed ...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Cornelius Mathews, mid-January 1847: 'We live here in the most secluded manner, eschewing English visitors and reading Vasari'.Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningGiorgio VasariunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 4 February 1847: 'By the grace of M. Ferucci, we have Vasari from the library, & are ploughing through it [...] ...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningGiorgio VasariDelle vite de piu eccelenti pittori, scultori, ed ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read no more of Boccac[c]io than his description of the plague which is extremely powerful from the hesitation you seemed to have in allowing me to read him I fel...Jane Baillie Welsh Giovanne BoccaccioDecomerone o ver Cento NovellePrint: Book
1800-1849'Boccac[c]io I return! - I have read the introduction and three of the tales which I took by chance from different parts of the book - in the two first my choice was fort...Jane Baillie Welsh Giovanne BoccaccioDecomerone o ver Cento NovellePrint: Book
1800-1849'Lord Byron, to whom Mr. Murray sent a copy of [Belzoni's] work, said: "Belzoni [italics]is[end italics] a grand traveller, and his English is very prettily broken."' George Gordon Lord Byron Giovanni BelzoniNarrative of the Operations and recent Discoveries...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Giovanni BoccaccioOpere (vols I-IV (of 6))Print: Book
1700-1799"[William and Dorothy Wordsworth] probably read [the Decameron] together as he tutored her in Italian [1796] ... " This "consistent" with W[ordsworth]'s remark in Nov. 18...William and Dorothy WordsworthGiovanni BoccaccioIl DecameronePrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nig...George Eliot [pseud.] Giovanni Boccaccio[story of Fra Cipolla, from Decameron]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'George Eliot [pseud] Giovanni BoccaccioDecameronPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'read Bocaccio'Mary Shelley Giovanni Boccaccio[possibly] DecameronPrint: Book
1800-1849'read the Decameroni'Mary Shelley Giovanni BoccaccioDecameronPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Decamerone'Mary Shelley Giovanni BoccaccioDecameronPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise Lost aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Giovanni Boccaccio[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Bocaccio [sic] aloud - & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont]'Percy Bysshe Shelley Giovanni Boccaccio[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Giovanni Boccaccio[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]'Percy Bysshe Shelley Giovanni Boccaccio[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery....Samuel Johnson Giovanni Boccacio[tales from the 'Decameron']Print: Book


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