| Evidence: | 'Read some Italian letters of Gallileo's [sic] and Raphael's, more for the names of the writers than the matter of the letters. How dull they are! how many letters written by less extraordinary persons, are ten thousand times more interesting'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 21 Feb 1815 | ||||||||||
| Country: | France | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Nice | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Charlotte Bury |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 18 Feb 1775 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | Lady-in-waiting |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | France |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Galileo Galilei |
| Title: | [letters] |
| Genre: | Letters |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | in Italian |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18361 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Charlotte Bury | |
| Editor: | A. Francis Steuart | |
| Title: | Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1908 | |
| Vol: | I | |
| Page: | 305 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Charlotte Bury, A. Francis Steuart (ed.), Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The (London, 1908), I, p. 305, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18361, accessed: 04 December 2023 | |
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