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Vittorio Alfieri

 

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Count Vittorio Alfieri : [marginalia]

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, marginal note in MS of Ariosto, Orlando Furioso

  

Vittorio Alfieri : Memoirs

"... but I do send by a carman two volumes of Alfieri's Life and Kirwan's Essay on Happiness, and the ... edition of Parent's Assistant, which with your leave, I present to your servant Richard."

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth      Print: Book

  

Vittorio Alfieri : [unknown]

'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending to "Evelina". In "Evelina" she was disappointed, like a good many more of its readers - more perhaps than make the confession. There was study of Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge as well, for everyone was reading them... Annabella waded through "Madoc". She found some passages wearisome but was convinced that Southey would one day be ranked high "among the ancient poets".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke      Print: Book

  

Vittorio Alfieri : [Tragedies]

[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.

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

  

Vittorio Alfieri : Myrrha

'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'

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

  

Vittorio Alfieri : Filippo

'Read the Filippo of Alfieri'

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

  

Vittorio Alfieri : Polinice

'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'

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

  

Vittorio Alfieri : Antigone

'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'

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

  

Vittorio Alfieri : Rosmunda

'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'

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

  

Vittorio Alfieri : Virginia

'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'

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

  

Vittorio Alfieri : [Plays]

'This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedipus Tyrannos to me'

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

  

Vittorio Alfieri : Saul

'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.'

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

  

Vittorio Alfieri : Agide

'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus'

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

  

Vittorio Alfieri : [Tragedies]

'finish the trajedies of Alfieri - Walk out with S. He reads Malthus & Cymbeline aloud in the evening'

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

  

Vittorio Alfieri : Vita di Vittorio Alfieri ... scritta da esso

[Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references. An x denotes Percy Shelley having read the text too] 'M Clarke's Travels Hume's dissertation on the passions Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey Letters & c 2 vols of Montaigne Schlegel on the drama Oeuvres de Moliere Aristippes de Wieland French trans. of Lucian Mille et une nuits Tragedies de Voltaire Trajedies de Corneille x Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire x Voyages du jeune Anacharsis Ben Jonson's Comedies Pope's Homer Joseph Andrews - Gil Blas - x Corinne Faublas Italian Pamela x Aminta of Tasso Monti's Tragedies x Orlando Furioso Giurusalemme [sic] Liberata tragedies of Alfieri x Inferno of Dante Vita di Alfieri Latin x The Aenied [sic] Terence's Comedies 2 books of Horace 10 books of Livy'

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

  

Vittorio Alfieri : Unknown

'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ever saw) - when you devoted four hours of my day to the study of history, what did you mean should become of my Italian and my dear German?'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

  

Vittorio Alfieri : unknown

Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see Lytton sitting in the deck chair reading Alfieri from a lovely vellum copy, dutifully looking out words. He wore a white felt hat, & the usual grey clothes; was long, & tapering as usual; looking so mild & so ironical, his beard just cut short [...] For my own encouragement, I may note that he praised the Voyage Out voluntarily; "[italics]extremely[end italics] good" it seemed to him on re-reading, especially the satire of the Dalloways.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lytton Strachey      Print: Book

  

Vittorio Alfieri : unknown

Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read Annie S. Swan on her life with considerable respect. Almost always this comes from an Au[tobiograph]y: a liking, at least some imaginative stir: for no doubt her books, which she cant count, & has no illusions about, but she cant stop telling stories, are wash, pigs, hogs -- any wash you choose. But she is a shrewd capable old woman.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

Vittorio Alfieri : unknown

Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopped 2 days now The Years [novel in progress]:& feel the power to settle, calmly & firmly on books coming back at once. John Bailey's life, come today, makes me doubt though -- what? Everything [...] I've only just glanced & got the smell of Lit. dinner. Lit. Sup, Lit this that & the other -- & the one remark to the effect that Virginia Woolf, of all people, has been given Cowper by Desmond [MacCarthy], & likes it! I, who read Cowper when I was 15 -- d----d nonsense.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

 

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