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Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna

Thomas Jefferson

This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Jefferson's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.

Thomas Jefferson and L'Italia avanti il dominio dei Romani

Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to L'Italia avanti il dominio dei Romani.

Thomas Jefferson is attested as having read this work by Micali.

Evidence ledger

  • First-person reading testimony (Explicit first-person engaged reading: 'I have been occupied and delighted with reading another work... "l'Italia avanti il dominio dei Romani dal Micali."' Title quoted in full and author (Micali) in-passage; no catalogue match, proposed as a new Work. Same letter explicitly contrasts a NOT-read work (Sismondi).). Self-report reliability discount 0.9: Present/recent engaged reading with the full title quoted and an unprompted delight ('occupied and delighted with reading') in a work whose title 'did not promise much' - no flattery context (the author is a stranger), high specificity.