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Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read through the third decade [of Livy's Romanae historiae principis, in Harvey's copy], the story of Hannibal, in one week in 1570-71 ... Harvey records that they read along with Livy the military authors Vegetius and Frontinus, and that they did so critically ..."

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr.     Print: Book

  

Frontinus  : Stratagems

Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": " ... when ... [Harvey] and [Philip] Sidney went through books 1-3 [of Livy's Romanae historiae], they compared them to Frontinus's Stratagems (first century A.D.) [notes copiousness of annotations in Harvey's copy of Frontinus at the Houghton Librrary, Havard]."

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

  

Frontinus  : The stratagemes

'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this period as well as from 1580 and 1588.'

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

  

Frontinus  : The stratagemes

'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this period as well as from 1580 and 1588.'

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

  

Frontinus  : The stratagemes

'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this period as well as from 1580 and 1588.'

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

 

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