Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler Print: Book
'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary's translation of Dante and Mr. Jowell's "Christian Researches".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'Without personal influence on my life he [Harry de la Rose Farnall] he nevertheless put into my hands the small poorly printed volume that led me into communion, how remote and unworthy soever [sic], with Dante.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ronald Storrs Print: Book
'In the morning a little "Inferno". James's "Washington Square" (his first, American manner) and Turgeneff's [sic] "Fumée"; but Russian books are always a slight effort to me, I suppose by reason of the lackage of style in translation.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ronald Storrs Print: Book
'In the morning to Santa Maria where we looked at the Spanish Chapel with Ruskin.[...] In the afternoon poked about in the back streets behind the Duomo which are all full of palaces and where the little square with the old tower Dante's church and doorway is wonderfully thrilling. Tea at the Cascine. Read Dante when we came in.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell Print: Book
'Read some of the Farinata Canto [Canto 10 of "La Divina Commedia"]'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell Print: Book
'Round by San Vitale and Galla Placidia's tomb — such a dark beautiful blue in the morning light and home to the hotel where we met Mr Hogarth who took us to the Library and showed us the only Aristophanes MS in the world, of the 10th cent, and a Dante said to have been written by [Dante's son] Pietro which I opened and read "Sieda [sic] la terra dove nata fui." Guido de Polenta's house is just opposite Dante's tomb.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell Manuscript: Unknown
' We shall go to Kish on the way back and if only the weather is nice it will be delightful. It has been raining in such torrents that I hope we may have a dry spell for the next ten days. We take with us a Dante from which to read our favourite cantos. It sounds rather priggish but I don't think that matters. I shall also take some novels, I may add, and some delicatessen to eat in the train.
Haven't you loved the 3rd vol of Page's letters. I've written about them too to Father.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell Print: Book
Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as
part of myself, nearly every classic has come with
this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm:
Virgil, Sophocles, Aeschylus and Dante, Chaucer
and Milton and Goethe, Leopardi and Racine, Plato
and Pascal and St Augustine, they have appeared,
widely scattered through the years, every one like
a 'rock in a thirsty land', that makes the world
look different in its shadow.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Freya Stark Print: Unknown
