√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'If you want light easy Italian reading, get Giraud's Commedie - They are excessively amusing - Some are farcical & some are grave, but all full of action, & with a great... Sarah Harriet Burney Giovanni Giraud Commedie Print : Book1850-1899 'Left at 12.30 and reached Munich at 9, but the journey didn't seem at all long. Read Morelli and "La Cousine Bette". Stopped at the Hotel Belle Vue, supper and so to bed... Gertrude Bell Giovanni Morelli (pseud. Ivan Lermolieff) ?Kunstkritische Studien über italienische Ma... Print : Book1850-1899 'After lunch I went to the Borghese Villa. Aren't the gardens a dream! I had my Morelli with me and spent a long peaceful time looking at the pictures with the help of hi... Gertrude Bell Giovanni Morelli (pseud. Ivan Lermolieff) Della pittura italiana: Studii storico critici di ... Print : Book1850-1899 In letter to 'My Dear ----,' E. M. Sewell reproduces several passages (in English translation) from Giovanni Perrone, "Catechismi intorno al Protestanteismo ed alla Chies... Elizabeth Missing Sewell Giovanni Perrone Catechismi intorno al Protestantesimo ed alla Chie... Print : Book1850-1899 'Symonds has lent me Pontanus ... You can twig the argument; he is delicious.' Robert Louis Stevenson Giovanni Pontano Pontani Opera, 'Hendecasyllaborum, Liber Primus' x... Print : Book1700-1799 'Povoleri the Italian who dedicated the Tragedy of Rosmunda to me some years ago, has translated Gray's Church Yard Elegy into Tuscan: tis enchantment to hear the Fellow ... Giovanni Povoleri Giovanni Povoleri [translation of Gray's Elegy into Italian] Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 'Here's a pretty Sonnet of Povoleri's; I must translate it. [the verse is given in Italian and English] over the Page we shall see another Sonnet, written by the Abbate B... Hester Lynch Thrale Giovanni Povoleri [a sonnet on love and friendship] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'Write - Read Homer - Targione - Spanish - A rainy day. S. reads Calderon' Mary Shelley Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Villani - Travels of Rolando' Mary Shelley Giovanni Villani Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a... Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Villani' Mary Shelley Giovanni Villani Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a... Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Villani' Mary Shelley Giovanni Villani Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a... Print : Book1850-1899 'Began again the Life of Savonarola by Villani. Read of "Ecstasy".' George Eliot [pseud.] Giovanni (?) Villani Life of Savonarola [in his Cronica?] Print : Book1800-1849 'I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The Village of Mariendorpt, full of the most touching p... Sarah Harriet Burney Giovanni Baptista Belzoni Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries... Print : Book1850-1899 'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t... Flora Thompson Giovanni Battista Belzoni Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries... Print : Book1850-1899 'Laura's greatest find was a battered old copy of Belzoni's "Travels" propping open somebody's pantry window. When she asked for the loan of it, it was generously given t... Flora Thompson Giovanni Battista Belzoni Travels Print : Book1800-1849 'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit des Nations (72). S. reads Pastor Fido (102) and Gibbo... Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont Giovanni Battista Guarini Il Pastor Fido; tragicomedio pastorale Print : Book1800-1849 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such f... Adam Smith Giovanni Battista Guarini Il Pastor Fido Print : Book1800-1849 'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled... Miss V[-] Giovanni Battista Guarini Il Pastor Fido Print : Book1800-1849 'to return to "Pastor Fido", with whom I have not yet finished, - I must tell you, that though I (what a great authority!) do not take pleasure in this said translation o... Miss V[-] Giovanni Battista Guarino Il Pastor Fido Print : Book1800-1849 '[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (To recollect the life of Rienzi - Fortifiocca)[end i... Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont Giovanni Battista Guiarini Il pastor fido; tragicomedio pastorale Print : Book
