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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'George Eliot [pseud.] Francesco Sachetti[stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nig...George Eliot [pseud.] Giovanni Boccaccio[story of Fra Cipolla, from Decameron]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.George Eliot [pseud.] Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi[unknown - on Spain]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.George Eliot [pseud.] Georges Bernard Depping[unknown - on Spain]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
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'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's "Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini"... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.George Eliot [pseud] Ludovico Antonio Muratori[unknown, on the Confraternita]Print: Book
1850-1899'We read, wrote and walked a little before dinner. After, I read Sainte Beuve aloud.'George Eliot [pseud] Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and fi...George Eliot [pseud] Luigi Pulci[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and fi...George Eliot [pseud] Theocritus[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the Malmantile'George Eliot [pseud] Malmantile[unknown]Print: Book
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'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'George Eliot [pseud] Johann Lorenz von Mosheim [possibly][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'George Eliot [pseud] Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read Prescott again and made notes'George Eliot [pseud] [probably] William Prescott[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'George Eliot [pseud] Aeschlyus[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.George Eliot [pseud.] Geoffrey Chaucer[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fa...George Eliot [pseud] Charles Augustine Sainte-Beuve[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'.George Eliot [pseud] Auguste Comte[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Began Revision of Problem II. Revised Introduction. Finished 2nd reading of Psychological Principles'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[various works Eliot was revising]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'.George Eliot [pseud] Henri Milne-Edwards[work on Zoology]Print: Book


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