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Petronius : Satyricon

'Read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin      Print: Book

Petronius : Satyricon

'read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book... in the evening read Louvet's memoirs'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

Petronius : unknown

[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1814: all the titles have database entries based on journal entries about reading them] Diogenes Laertius Cicero - Colectanea. Petronius Suetonius Barrow's Embassy to China Mungo Park's travels. 60 vol'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Petronius : [Works]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; and a good deal of Petronius; ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone      Print: Book

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