√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | '"My Sister would be very glad of your assistance in her Italian studies," W[ordsworth] wrote to [William] Mathews on ... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: "In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo... | Count Vittorio Alfieri | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 8 November 1802: 'I have read one canto of Ariosto today.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Did you never, madam, wish for Angelica's Invisible Ring, in Ariosto's "Orlando"? - I remember when I first read of i... | Samuel Richardson | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariost... | Thomas Carlyle | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid ... | Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio' | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening' | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ... | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon... | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis' | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Orlando Furioso - read Anacharsis - S. corrects the Symposium and reads Herodotus' | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them;... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Ludovico Ariosto | [Works] | Print: Book |