| Evidence: | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read through the third decade [of Livy's Romanae historiae principis, in Harvey's copy], the story of Hannibal, in one week in 1570-71 ... Harvey records that they read along with Livy the military authors Vegetius and Frontinus, and that they did so critically ..." |
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| Century: | 1500-1599 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 01 01 1570 and 31 12 1571 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Cambridge county: Cambridgeshire |
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| Reading Group: | Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr. |
| Age | n/a |
| Gender | n/a |
| Date of Birth | 1550 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Lawyer |
| Religion: | Anglican |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Thomas Smith |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Livy |
| Title: | Romanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimidia |
| Genre: | Classics, History, Biography, Politics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Basel, 1555 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 5781 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Stephen A. Barney | |
| Title: | Annotation and Its Texts | |
| Place of Publication: | New York | |
| Date of Publication: | 1991 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 114 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Stephen A. Barney (ed.), Annotation and Its Texts (New York, 1991), p. 114, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5781, accessed: 02 June 2023 | |
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