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Record Number: 16460


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 11 Oct 1820 and 12 Oct 1820

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Bagni San Giuliano

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Aug 1792

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

poet

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Italy

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

Mary Shelley


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Giovanni Boccaccio

Title:

[unknown]

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

16460

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Paula R. Feldman

Title:

The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1987

Vol:

I

Page:

334

Additional Comments:

Additional editor Diana Scott-Kilvert

Citation:

Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844, (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 334, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=16460, accessed: 07 October 2024


Additional Comments:

Though it is not specified who read this or how, Shelley had begun reading Boccaccio aloud to Mary on 13th Sept, both Shelleys having read him before.

   
   
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