" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all the Faerie Queene, all of Milton's poetry, the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme Liberata in the originals, and in translation the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Pharsalia, and ... [nearly all] of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Ovid, Tacitus, Xenophon, Herodotus and Thucydides."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book
'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapelus's [i.e Gabriel Harvey's] reading:
'"What kinds of unique authors does Eutrapelus read daily? Eunapius, with Tacitus, Philostratus with Julian, Zwinger's "Theatre" with Gandino, Bartas with Rabelais, Theocritus's "Idyll I" with the epitaphs of Bion and Adonis. Three heroic shields (Homer, Hesiod, Virgil) with the "seventh day" of Bartas, Solomon's "Song of Songs" with the Behemoth of Job and the Leviathan"' (translated from Latin).
Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book
'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes
by Baron Bock [notes anecdote from this] --
[...]
'Monday April 10th. [...] Read the Germania of Tacitus & begin his Life of Agricola.
'Tuesday April 11th. [...] Finish the Life of Agricola by Tacitus. Begin his De Oratoribus.
[...]
'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish De Oratoribus of Tacitus.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes
by Baron Bock [notes anecdote from this] --
[...]
'Monday April 10th. [...] Read the Germania of Tacitus & begin his Life of Agricola.
'Tuesday April 11th. [...] Finish the Life of Agricola by Tacitus. Begin his De Oratoribus.
[...]
'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish De Oratoribus of Tacitus.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes
by Baron Bock [notes anecdote from this] --
[...]
'Monday April 10th. [...] Read the Germania of Tacitus & begin his Life of Agricola.
'Tuesday April 11th. [...] Finish the Life of Agricola by Tacitus. Begin his De Oratoribus.
[...]
'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish De Oratoribus of Tacitus.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
