Evidence: | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature of Italy, Spain &c., which I would willingly recommend... on my return to London I would gladly forward it... Gibbon is well worth a hundred perusals. Watson's Philip of Spain, and Coxe's Spain and Austria are dry enough; but there is some advantage to be extracted even from them. Vertot's Revolutions (but |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Greece | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Athens | ||||||||||
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Reader: | George Gordon, Lord Byron |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 22 Jan 1788 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | poet |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Greece |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [unknown] |
Title: | [30 vol. History of 'Conjurazioni] |
Genre: | History |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ in a convent library |
Record ID: | 9295 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Ethel Colburn Mayne | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1969 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 105 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Ethel Colburn Mayne, The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron (London, 1969), p. 105, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9295, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
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