| Evidence: | 'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 11 Oct 1820 and 12 Oct 1820 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Italy | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Bagni San Giuliano | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 4 Aug 1792 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | poet |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Italy |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Mary Shelley |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Giovanni Boccaccio |
| Title: | [unknown] |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 16460 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Paula R. Feldman | |
| Title: | The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844 | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1987 | |
| Vol: | I | |
| Page: | 334 | |
| Additional comments: | Additional editor Diana Scott-Kilvert |
| Citation: | Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844 (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 334, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16460, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Though it is not specified who read this or how, Shelley had begun reading Boccaccio aloud to Mary on 13th Sept, both Shelleys having read him before. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)