Reading Experience Database Browse Author Writings Erasmus Desiderius

√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1500-1599	'[Gabriel] Harvey no doubt has the incident [of Philip, Lord Surrey's 'attempts [...] on the virtue' of Harvey's siste...	Gabriel Harvey	Desiderius Erasmus	Parabolae	Print: Book
	1500-1599	'[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-rea...	Gabriel Harvey	Desiderius Erasmus	Parabolae	Print: Book
	1500-1599	'[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-rea...	Gabriel Harvey	Desiderius Erasmus	Parabolae	Print: Book
	1500-1599	'[Gabriel] Harvey's favourite books were read and annotated a number of times [...] at the conclusion of [his Erasmus]...	Gabriel Harvey	Desiderius Erasmus	Works	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'so did not enlarge, but took leave and went down and sat in a low room reading Erasmus "de scribendis Epistolis", a v...	Samuel Pepys	Desiderius Erasmus	De conscribendis epistolis	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[letter from Johnson to Dr Brocklesby] Tell Dr. Heberden, that in the coach I read "Ciceronianus" which I concluded a...	Samuel Johnson	Desiderius Erasmus	Ciceronianus	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 15 October 1763:] 'It is more from the testimony of others than from any rec...	Elizabeth Carter	Desiderius Erasmus	'Dialogues'	Print: Book