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Cicero

 

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Cicero  : Works including On Friendship

'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his Tusculan villa, i.e. at his father's house in Saffron Walden, assiduously studying not only the greatest of the old Roman writers, but renaissance writers such as Sturm, Manutius, Osorius, Sigonius and Buchanan. He had given more time to Cicero than to all the rest put together, yet sometimes he had dropped Cicero on Friendship to take up Osorius on Glory'.

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey      Print: Book

  

Cicero  : 

Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horace were our main reading then'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Pupils at Mr Perry's school     Print: Book

  

Cicero  : unknown

Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 8 March 1823: 'We are now doing Cicero in the evening instead of doing Homer both morning and evening.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Moulton-Barrett and boys at Charterhouse     Print: Book

  

Cicero  : unknown

'we each [Elizabeth Barrett and her brother Edward] are blessed with abilities -- my dear Bro's are more solid & more profound -- mine are more refined & dazzling [...] He delights in the sober reasoning of the Historian! He feels greater interest in the noble Sallust while I have remained entranced over a page of the divine & animated Cicero!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

Cicero  : The treatises of M.T. Cicero

MS date of reading by G.O. Trevelyan: Sep 2 1922. Also: "The pencil notes in this volume, which are cut off partially in the re-binding of it, are by a previous possessor. I have rubbed these out as we went along".

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

  

Cicero  : 

'[During autumn 1817] she [Lady Byron] was well and happy with M. G. [i.e. her friend Lady Gosford] at Kirkby, reading Cicero and admiring his rejection of Expediency, "his assertion of the duties we owe to our Natures."'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Byron      Print: Book

 

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