| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy .... | Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Preston | Niccolo Machiavelli | Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes Harvey's reading, and light annotati... | Gabriel Harvey | Niccolo Machiavelli | The Art of War | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence"... | Sarah Scott | Niccolo Machiavelli | History of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked through Machiavelli's works'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Niccolo Machiavelli | The Prince (probably) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Niccolo Machiavelli | Istorie fiorentine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Niccolo Machiavelli | La Mandragola | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began "Il Principe".' | George Eliot [pseud] | Niccolo Machiavelli | Il Principe | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1500-1599 | 'Despite [Gabriel] Harvey's dissatisfaction with his progress in Italian, in 1580 he managed to read the "First Decade... | Gabriel Harvey | Niccolo Machiavelli | Discorsi ("First Decade") | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[One] branch of [Gabriel] Harvey's marginalia [...] has to do with his study of the techniques of warfare. Extensive... | Gabriel Harvey | Niccolo Machiavelli | The Arte of Warre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday, 7th January,
Offered Pat 19th January or 16th March for his friend?s lecture.
Smith does not expect to le... | Gerald Moore | Niccolo Machiavelli | History of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began, with a view of comparing notes, Macchiavel's "Historie Fiorentino"...' | Thomas Green | Niccolo Machiavelli | History of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the 1st Book of Macchievel's "Discorsi sopra Livio"...' | Thomas Green | Niccolo Machiavelli | Discourses on Livy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Niccolo] Machiavelli | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Nov. 30th. [...] Read the [...] Novella of Belfegor da Macchivelli.' | Claire Clairmont | Belfegor da Machiavelli | Novella piacevolissima | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aeni... | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Machiavelli | La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: several pencil and ink annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of... | John Drummond Erskine | Niccolo Machiavelli | The works of Nicholas Machiavel, secretary of state to the republic of Florence. Newly Translated from the Originals; Illustrated with Notes, Anecdotes, Dissertations, and the Life of Machiavel, Never before published; And Several New Plans .... | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read in Machiavelli's "Florence" Cosmo de' Medici's sad saying before his death: keeping his eyes shut, his wife aski... | John Ruskin | Machiavelli | Florence | Print: Book |