Record Number: 20910

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia 1309 (?) which I'd never read and now only have in translation, must have been written excitedly, and while Div[ina]. Com[media] was forming in his mind. What a pity it only deals with Canzone! [goes on to comment further on passages noted from text]'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 19 Aug 1930 and 31 Dec 1930

Country:

n/a

Time

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Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Edward Morgan Forster

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1 Jan 1879

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Dante Alighieri

Title:

De Vulgari Eloquentia

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

In English translation by A. G. Ferrers Howell (1890)

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20910

Source:

Print

Author:

E. M. Forster

Editor:

Philip Gardner

Title:

Commonplace Book

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1985

Vol:

n/a

Page:

82-83

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

E. M. Forster, Philip Gardner (ed.), Commonplace Book (London, 1985), p. 82-83, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20910, accessed: 20 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Translator/edition of text conjectured by source ed.