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Jean Charles Sismondi
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Jean Charles Sismondi : History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages
Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of Zara -- besides the histories of Laugier Daru -- Sismondi &c.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi : History of the Italian Republics
'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti's Novelle, and Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi : [unknown - on Spain]
'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi : Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe
'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litterature du Midi", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in "the Vegetable World". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Jean Charles de Sismondi : Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe
[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature of Italy, Spain &c., which I would willingly recommend... on my return to London I would gladly forward it... Gibbon is well worth a hundred perusals. Watson's Philip of Spain, and Coxe's Spain and Austria are dry enough; but there is some advantage to be extracted even from them. Vertot's Revolutions (but
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book
Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi : unknown history
'Having just concluded the first volume of Sismondi's history, and the other not being yet arrived from Edinr, I think I cannot better employ the hour of leisure, which necessarily intervenes between the end of this and the beginning of a fresh employment, than in returning you my thanks for the kind and good-humoured letter which I received last Saturday.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi : Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age
'S reads Livy & Winkhelmann aloud - read Dante - And Sismondi'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi : Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age
'Finish the Inferno of Dante & the 9th book of Livy - S & I read Sismondi'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley Print: Book
Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi : Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age
'finish Sismondi'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi : Histoire des Republiques Italiennes du moyen age
'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi : Italian Republics
'Looking at Sismondi's "Italian Republics" an odd fit of industry came over me in the morning.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi : Italian Republics
'Staid in all day for cold, but sketched some figures from window, and heard some of Sismondi's "Italian Republics", and my day has been rather profitable.'
