the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

Metastasio [pseud.] : 

'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Book

Metastasio [pseud.] : Adriano

'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Daughter get by heart - Johnson translated into Blank Verse - [italics] sur le Champ [end italics]: Baretti wrote it down from his Lips, and I write it now from Baretti's Copy, which is almost worne out with lying by in the folds'. [the verses are given in Italian and English]

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Maria Thrale      Print: Book

Click check box to select all entries on this page: