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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] Antonio Francesco Grizzini (pseud. Lasca)[possibly a story from Le Cene]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] Emile Du Bois Reymond[book on Johannes Mueler]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'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] [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece".'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][chronicle of conquest of the Morea]Print: Book
1850-1899'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece"'George Eliot George FinlayA History of GreecePrint: 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'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"'George Eliot [pseud] Bernardo Dovizi da BibbienaLa CalandraPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read to G. the Proem and opening scene of my novel and he expressed great delight in them'.George Eliot [pseud] George Eliot (pseud.)RomolaManuscript: Sheet, MS of novel
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'Today we have been to the London Library and I have read J. Mill's article on "The American Conquest".'George Eliot [pseud] John Stuart MillConquest in America, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening I read aloud von Sybel's Lectures on the Crusades'George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich von SybelHistory and Literature of the CrusadesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have lately read again with great delight Mrs Browning's "Casa Guidi Windows". It contains amongst other admirable things a very noble expression of what I believe to ...George Eliot [pseud] Elizabeth Barrett BrowningCasa Guidi WindowsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899[at Englefield Green] 'I have finished Pulci there, and read aloud the "Chateau D'If" to G.'George Eliot [pseud] Alexandre Dumas (pere)The Count of Monte CristoPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this morning not being well enough to write I have been r...George Eliot [pseud] unknown[books on medieval Greece]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this morning not being well enough to write I have been r...George Eliot [pseud] Christopher WordsworthGreecePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud] Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir NisardPoetes Latins de la DecadencePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud] Juvenal[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'today I have been reading a book often referred to by Hallam: Meiner's "Lives of Picus von Mirandola and Politian". They are excellent. They have German industry and are...George Eliot [pseud] Meiner[lives of Politian and Pico della Mirandola]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'.George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaProcessiPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown



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