Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy ... with Thomas Preston, master of Trinity Hall. They read Machiavelli's Discorsi at the same time ... They read several other up-to-date works on pragmatic politics as well, notably Jean Bodin's Methodus and Republic."
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Preston Print: Book
Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes Harvey's reading, and light annotation, of Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of War.
Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book
'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christianity not founded on argument, Randolph's answer to it... and some of David's Simple Life... an account of the Government of Venice, Montaigne's Essays.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Scott Print: Book
'Looked through Machiavelli's works'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read "Blackwood"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
'Began "Il Principe".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
'Despite [Gabriel] Harvey's dissatisfaction with his progress in Italian, in 1580 he managed to read the "First Decade" of Machiavelli's "Discorsi"'.
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book
'[One] branch of [Gabriel] Harvey's marginalia [...] has to do with his study of the techniques of warfare. Extensive notes in this area are found in his copies of [...] Machiavelli (Peter Whitehorne's 1573 translation of the "Arte of Warre"), and Whitehorne's "Certaine wayes for the ordering of Soldiours" (1574).'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book
'Thursday, 7th January,
Offered Pat 19th January or 16th March for his friend?s lecture.
Smith does not expect to leave for the Coast until about October. He expects to go with Adams.
Read: ?History of Florence? ( Machiavelli)'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
'Began, with a view of comparing notes, Macchiavel's "Historie Fiorentino"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
'Read the 1st Book of Macchievel's "Discorsi sopra Livio"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ;one book of Machiavelli's "History"; a novel and play of his ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book
'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aenied aloud - read Condorcet's life of Voltaire - S. reads Locke.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[Marginalia]: several pencil and ink annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by annotation in the margin example(1) p.542 (v.1. The Prince chpt. VI) against the footnote "r" on religion and armed conflict is the marginal note "NB The hindoo religion refutes Machiavel's position"; (2)p. 690 (v.1. The Prince chpt XXV) has the marginal note "his Majesty first defined the word chance or fortune" against the translator's note "o".
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
