Record Number: 8318
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Began again the Life of Savonarola by Villani. Read of "Ecstasy".'
Century:1850-1899
Date:13 Aug 1861
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:22 Nov 1819
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Life of Savonarola [in his Cronica?]
Genre:Biography
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:8318
Source:George Eliot
Editor:Margaret Harris
Title:The Journals of George Eliot
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1998
Vol:n/a
Page:99
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
George Eliot, Margaret Harris (ed.), The Journals of George Eliot, (Cambridge, 1998), p. 99, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8318, accessed: 13 December 2024
Additional Comments:
The text in question is speculative, but Giovanni Villani's Cronica does deal with Savonarola. Life by Pasquale Villani is not publ. till 1888.