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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente'George Eliot [pseud] Luigi Pulci[unknown -novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'At present I am running along with Pulci, and have got interested in the paladins, but find him less full of point and idiom than I expected after the first Canto or two...George Eliot [pseud] Luigi Pulci[probably] MorgantePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'.George Eliot Marco LastriL'Osservatore FiorentinoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Lastri - "Osservatore Fiorentino" - this morning, intending to go regularly through it'George Eliot [pseud] Marco LastriL'Osservatore FiorentinoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino'George Eliot [pseud] Marco LastriOsservatore FiorentinoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud] Marcus AureliusunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "My faithful Johnny" in the Cornhill'.George Eliot [pseud] Margaret OliphantMy faithful JohnnyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The last few days I have been looking through Matthew Arnold's poems, and find his earlier ones very superior to the later'.George Eliot [pseud] Matthew Arnold[poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of ...George Eliot Max MullerHistory of Ancient Sanskrit LiteraturePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu...George Eliot [pseud] Michael DraytonNymphidia, The Court of FairyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu...George Eliot [pseud] Michael DraytonPolyolbionPrint: Book
1850-1899'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'.George Eliot [pseud] Michael Foster Textbook of PhysiologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic'George Eliot [pseud] Michelangelo Buonarotti the YoungerLa TanciaPrint: Book
1850-1899'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.George Eliot [pseud] Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Monier Williams'George Eliot [pseud] Monier Monier Williams[presumably work on Sanskrit]Print: Book
1850-1899'Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'. George Eliot [pseud] Nathaniel WraxallHistorical MemoirsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Looked through Machiavelli's works'.George Eliot [pseud.] Niccolo MachiavelliThe Prince (probably)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read "Blackwood"'.George Eliot [pseud] Niccolo MachiavelliIstorie fiorentinePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"'George Eliot [pseud] Niccolo MachiavelliLa MandragolaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began "Il Principe".'George Eliot [pseud] Niccolo MachiavelliIl PrincipePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown


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