| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Dante Alighieri | [Divina Commedia] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "-The common - pretty - timid - mistletoe bought kind of kiss was not what Dante meant. Ros... | John Ruskin | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Letter H. 28 - 23/12/1855 - "You have Carey's Dante I suppose - else Matilda's quotation from the Psalms might be usel... | John Ruskin | Dante Alighieri | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Why do you say that I don't like Dante? I read him through with the help of your crib & was profoundly impressed." | Leslie Stephen | Dante Alighieri | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It occurred to me lately to read Dante again &, as I required a crib very constantly I took yours & by its help went ... | Leslie Stephen | Dante Alighieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Dante Alighieri | Divina Commedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 22 July 1831, following record of discussion with her aunt Dall in which the prospect was raised of her ... | Fanny Kemble | Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy (Purgatorio) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since ... | Fanny Kemble | Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Dante Alighieri | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola' | George Eliot [pseud] | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Dante Alighieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Purgatorio'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dante' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [probably] Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [probably] Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'begin Clarissa Harlowe in Italian - S. reads and finishes Dante's Purgatorio' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. unwell - he reads the Paradiso' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Paradiso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday [...] May 1st. [...] Read 1st Canto of Dante's Paradiso'. | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Paradiso (Canto 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May 16th. Read 4 Canto's [sic] of Dante's Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday May 17th. [...] Read 5th. 6th. 7th. & 8 Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio (Cantos 5, 6, 7, 8) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday May 18th. [...] Read Alfieri's Tragedy of Mirra [...] Read 9 & 10th Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio (Cantos 9 and 10) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...] '. | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio (Cantos 11 and 12) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday May 20th. Read 13th. 14th. 15th. & 16th Cantos of Dante's Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio (Cantos 13, 14, 15, 16) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Dec. 2nd. [...] Read 1 Canto of Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Dec. 6th. [...] Read a Canto of Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read 2 Canto's of Dante with Shelley - he reads Livy and Winkhelmann aloud' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dante - S. reads Winkhelmann aloud' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Inferno of Dante & the 9th book of Livy - S & I read Sismondi' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sismondi - & the Purgatorio' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S.... | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Finish the 5th book of Lucan - Read the bible & with S. two Canto's of the Purgatorio' | Percy and Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dante's Vita Nuova' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the vita nuova aloud to me in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Vita Nuova.' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 3rd Canto of l'Inferno' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more ... | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more ... | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more ... | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Paradiso | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of
Purgatorio, but find it st... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A des... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 20 August 1930: 'I am reading Dante, & I say, yes, this makes all writing unnecessary [...] I read the Infer... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 September 1930: 'I am reading Dante; & my present view of reading is to elongate immensely. I take a week... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | La Divina Commedia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s... | Sir Ronald Storrs | Dante Alighieri | Divine Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 21 December 1845:
'Yesterday I was reading the "Purgatorio" and the first spe... | Robert Browning | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia 1309 (?) which I'd never read and now only have in translation, must have been written e... | Edward Morgan Forster | Dante Alighieri | De Vulgari Eloquentia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and t... | Samuel Johnson | Dante Alighieri | Divine Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aene... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Naples, 1826', C.M.G. describes the city and (m... | C.M.G. [anon] | Dante Alighieri | Divina Commedia: Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp... | Oscar Wilde | Dante Alighieri | Divina Commedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I noticed in Dante today, the two lines, "quali dal vento &c." (Inferno, book 7th, 12) as curiously describing the mo... | John Ruskin | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mr... | Elizabeth Smith | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mr... | Elizabeth Edminson | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mr... | Howard R. Smith | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were ... | Mebers of XII Book Club | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were ... | Members of XII Book Club | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were ... | Frederick Edminson | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were ... | Miss Marriage | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 25 November 1829:
'We have a quantity of leisure here, an... | Granville family | Dante Alighieri | | Print: Book |