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Commonplace book
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Commonplace books are personal notebooks used to compile any information the owner finds interesting or useful. They can variously contain notes, proverbs, adages, aphorisms, maxims, recipes, quotes,
A commonplace book from the mid-seventeenth century
A commonplace book from the mid-seventeenth century
Zibaldone di pensieri, written by the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi
Zibaldone di pensieri, written by the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi
Aulus Gellius
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Aulus Gellius was a Roman author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome. He was educated in Athens, after which he returned to Rome. He is famous for his Attic Nights,
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…and ethical overtones. While there are ancient compilations by writers including Pliny and Diogenes Laertius, many authors in the Renaissance credited Aulus Gellius as the founder of the genre with his commonplace Attic Nights. In the first century AD, Seneca the Younger suggested that readers collect commonplace…
Frontispiece to a 1706 Latin edition of the Attic Nights [fr] by Jakob Gronovius
Frontispiece to a 1706 Latin edition of the Attic Nights [fr] by Jakob Gronovius