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Record 12045

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'And so home with great ease and content, especially out of the content which I met with in a book I bought yesterday; being a discourse of the state of Rome under the present Pope, Alexander the 7th - it being a very excellent piece.'
Century: 1600-1699
Date: 18 Dec 1663
Country: England
Time: morning
Place: city: London
   
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

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Samuel Pepys
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 23 Feb 1663
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Admiralty, Clerk of the Acts
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Angelo Corraro
Title: Rome exactly described... in two curious discourses
Genre: Other religious, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: translated by John Bulteel, licensed 30 Sept and 9 Nov 1663 but dated 1664
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 12045  
Source - Print  
  Author: Samuel Pepys
  Editor: Robert Latham
  Title: The diary of Samuel Pepys
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1970
  Vol: 4
  Page: 425
  Additional comments: Co-editor William Matthews

Citation: Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys (London, 1970), 4, p. 425, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12045, accessed: 19 April 2024

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