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Ariosto

 

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Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'"My Sister would be very glad of your assistance in her Italian studies," W[ordsworth] wrote to [William] Mathews on 21 March 1796, " ... yesterday we began Ariosto."'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William and Dorothy Wordsworth     Print: Book

  

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, Orlando Furioso ending with the line "Mi serbo a farsi udie ne l'altro Canto" the follow[ing] autograph in pencil of Alfieri's "Vittorio Alfieri vide e venero" / 8 Giugno 1783. --'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: "In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, Orlando Furioso ending with the line "'Mi serbo a farsi udie ne l'altro Canto' "the follow[ing] autograph in pencil of Alfieri's 'Vittorio Alfieri vide e venero' / 8 Giugno 1783. --' 'The Librarian told me that Alfieri wrote this marginal note by permission of the Superiors -- and that he himself had seen Alfieri crying for hours over the M.S.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Count Vittorio Alfieri      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 8 November 1802: 'I have read one canto of Ariosto today.'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

Ariosto : 

'Sarah Harriet Burney read Ariosto with "delight", but "Here and there he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that annoy me, & burn them before the Author's face."'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

  

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'Did you never, madam, wish for Angelica's Invisible Ring, in Ariosto's "Orlando"? - I remember when I first read of it, I laboured under a real uneasiness for a whole week, from the strong desire I had to be master of such a one. I was a very sheepish boy, and thought I should make very happy use of it on a multitude of occasions.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson      Print: Book

  

M Lodovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariosto and "Six weeks at Longs." The latter end of this day will thus be better than the beginning.'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      

  

Lodovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'Shelley and Clara begin Orlando Furioso'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont     Print: Book

  

Lodovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'read a scene or two out of "As You Like It" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley finishes the 3d canto of Ariosto'.

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

  

Lodovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont     Print: Book

  

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid 90 lines - S & C. read Ariosto - 7th Canto. M. reads Voltaire p. 126.'[end italics]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont     Print: Book

  

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'.

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

  

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio'

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

  

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening'

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

  

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.

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

  

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'

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

  

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'

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

  

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'Finish Orlando Furioso - read Anacharsis - S. corrects the Symposium and reads Herodotus'

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

  

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

  

Ludovico Ariosto : [Works]

'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History having been interrupted by my leaving Florence, I could not for the life of me connect it again; and I got hold of other books - read no Italian for ages - and, at last, pounced one fine day upon a good, clear edition of Ariosto, and have been and am reading him with even more delight than when he first fell into my hands. Here and there, he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that annoy me, & burn them before the Author's face, which stands at the beginning of the first volume, and I hope feels properly ashamed. Next to Ariosto, by way of something new, I treat myself now and then with a play of one Wm Shakespear, and I am reading Robertson's Charles Vth which comes in well after that part of Botta's History at which I left off - viz: just about the time of the council of Trent. And, as I love modern reading, I was glad to find myself possessed of a very tidy edition of a Biographical work you may perhaps have heard tell of - Plutarch's Lives. If you should ever meet with it, I think I might venture to say you would not dislike it'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

  

Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 3 October 1755: 'I met with some lines the other day in a translation of a famous Italian poet, which in a few expressive words, gives a better account of this sweet country, than I could in a hundred [quotes eight lines opening "She wishes much to tarry in this land ..."]. This poem was the only book of amusement I brought with me; it is called Ariosto,; or, Orlando Furioso, and is, in its way, a most wonderful piece of imagination, and really a very extraordinary work.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Collier      Print: Book

 

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