Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Tasso

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849So we read together ... a part of the beautiful "Gerusalemme Liberata", of Tasso, in that most beautiful tongue.Thomas Cooper TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...Frances Power Cobbe Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 9 May 1873: "Some time since I began to read Tasso with Miss Bartlett and though h...Henry James and Miss BartlettTorquato TassounknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'.George Eliot [pseud] Torquato TassounknownPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'My friend had a good deal to do in order to be prepared for his approaching voyage. While he was attending to these m...Thomas Carter Torquato TassoJerusalem DeliveredPrint: Book
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 Toquato TassounknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Tasso's "Jerusalem", in Hoole's Translation comparing it occasionally with the original, and with Fairfax's ...Thomas Green Torquato TassoJerusalem DeliveredPrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...Percy Bysshe Shelley Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...Percy Bysshe Shelley Torquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Torquato Tasso[unknwon]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Torquato] TassounknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Aminta with Shelley - he reads Vita del Tasso'Mary and Percy ShelleyTorquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus'Mary Shelley Torquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta'Mary Shelley Torquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Aminta - Read Livy - Transcribe the Symposium - Read the Revolt of Islam'Mary Shelley Torquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso'Mary Shelley Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the...Mary Shelley Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G'[Mr] Gisborne Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st Canto of Tasso'.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Torquato TassoLa Gerusalemme liberataPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso'Mary Shelley Torquato Tasso[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a book of Tasso to Shelley.'Mary Shelley Torquato Tasso[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Greek - Tasso'Mary Shelley Torquato Tasso[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'Mary Shelley Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: 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 Torquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1700-1799'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ...Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thank you for Herder which came in the nick of time; as I had just heard the last oracle of Nathan, and was ennuying ...Jane Baillie Welsh Torquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 19 July 1797: 'The old Lady Strathmore has some curious books. I hope ...Robert Southey Bernando TassoAmadis of GaulPrint: Book

 

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