Evidence: | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapelus's [i.e Gabriel Harvey's] reading:
'"What kinds of unique authors does Eutrapelus read daily? Eunapius, with Tacitus, Philostratus with Julian, Zwinger's "Theatre" with Gandino, Bartas with Rabelais, Theocritus's "Idyll I" with the epitaphs of Bion and Adonis. Three heroic shields (Homer, Hesiod, Virgil) with the "seventh day" of Bartas, Solomon's "Song of Songs" with the Behemoth of Job and the Leviathan"' (translated from Latin). |
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Century: | 1500-1599, 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1575 and 31 Dec 1608 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Gabriel Harvey |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1545 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer/academic |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Bion |
Title: | epitaphs |
Genre: | Classics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 9576 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Virginia F. Stern | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Gabriel Harvey: His Life, Marginalia and Library | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1979 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 181 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Virginia F. Stern, Gabriel Harvey: His Life, Marginalia and Library (Oxford, 1979), p. 181, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9576, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
"Eutrapelus" one of various personae adopted by Harvey in provate writings. |
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