Student library info ▿The Student library info pertains to the period when Beckett was a student at Trinity College Dublin (1923-1927) and a lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and TCD (1928-1931). It explains when he is thought to have acquired and read the book in question, based on his inscription, as well as various external sources including the official TCD college calendars, his 'Dream' Notebook, and his letters.Read: by October 1927.
For the Moderatorship examination, Beckett was free to choose any of the histories on Italian literature by de Sanctis, Hauvette or Scherillo. His copy of de Sanctis' Storia was bought in May 1927 in Florence.
Source:TCD College Calendar
Storia della letteratura italiana, Vol.1
Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1925
Benedetto Croce (ed.)
Inscription:'S. B. Beckett / Florence / May 1927'
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Available scans ▿cover, inscription, 56, 57, 58, 159.
Source:
Storia della letteratura italiana, Vol.
Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1925
Benedetto Croce (ed.)
Inscription:
> Show all marginalia in this book
Available scans ▿cover, inscription, 56, 57, 58, 159.
