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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
 
1800-1849'Shelley reads Manso's life of Tasso'Percy Bysshe Shelley Giovanni Battista MansoLa vita di Torquato TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale'Mary Shelley Giovanni Battista MansoLa vita di Torquato TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read only Italian books - and have just finished Niccolini's Foscarini, which is a fine masculine, energetic performance, & gave me much pleasure, and makes me admire ...Sarah Harriet Burney Giovanni Battista NiccoliniAntonio FoscariniPrint: Book
1700-1799'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that her father wrote the first two volumes: and in anothe...James Boswell Giovanni Paolo MaranaLetters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five a...Print: Book
1850-1899'Savonarola's Sermons'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo Savonarola[Sermons]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaDiscourse on GovernmentPrint: Book
1850-1899'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo Savonarola[Sermon on the Epistle of John]Print: Book
1850-1899'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo Savonarola[Sermon on Psalm Quam Bonus]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read half through the dialogue de Veritate Profetica'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaDe Veritate ProfeticaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the "Compendium Revelationum"'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaCompendium RevelationumPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'.George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaProcessiPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaCompendium RevelationumPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'.George Eliot [pseud.] Girolamo Tiraboschi[probably] Storia della letteratura italianaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Tiraboschi on the Discovery of Ancient MSS., and Manni, Vite etc.'George Eliot Girolamo Tiraboschi[probably] Storia della letteratura italianaPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Boswell to Johnson] Of the modern Frisick, or what is spoken by the boors at this day, I have procured a specimen. It is [italics] Gisbert Japix's Rymelerie [end italic...James Boswell Gisbert JapixRymeleriePrint: Book
1700-1799'I censured some ludicrous fantastick dialogues between two coach horses and other such stuff, which Baretti had lately published. He joined with me and said, "Nothing od...James Boswell Giuseppe Baretti[unidentified 'Dialogues']Print: Book
1700-1799'Here follows a Sonnet written by Giuseppe Pecio to call Voltaire into Italy; Lord Sandys read it here as excellent in its kind, & I took a Copy more to please him howeve...Hester Lynch Thrale Giuseppe Pecio[sonnet to Voltaire]Unknown
1700-1799'Here follows a Sonnet written by Giuseppe Pecio to call Voltaire into Italy; Lord Sandys read it here as excellent in its kind, & I took a Copy more to please him howeve...Lord Sandys Giuseppe Pecio[sonnet to Voltaire]Unknown
1850-1899'Looked into the Novellieri Scelti'.George Eliot [pseud.] Giuseppe Zirardini [probably]Tesoro dei Novellieri Italiani scelti dal decimote...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Giuseppe Luca PasiniVocabolario Italiano-Latino per uso degli studiosiPrint: Book


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